【大意】等到大寒节气到来时,冰霜寒雪从天而降,然后才能知道只有松柏能经得住严寒考验,依然繁茂。
When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.
The anarchic nature of the international system forces states to compete for power.