世界上充满了故事，但只有少数值得讲述。

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the objet of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have cought happiness without dreaming of it.

在上位的有什么爱好，在下面的人一定爱好得更加利害。

暴政的根基是恐惧。

我从来不太愿意以道德家的口吻来说话。

道德规则不是我们理性的结论。