我们恨一个人，其实是在他的形象里恨我们自己内心的东西。
没有比复仇更昂贵、更没用的事情了。
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
The power of words lies in their ability to create worlds.
Pleasures， then， and the avoidance of pains， are the ends that the legislator has in view.
如果你没有敌人，那你就已经死了。
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.