贪心不知足易招侮辱,不如节俭而守廉洁之气。求取功名而冒犯节义,不如节俭而成全节义。巧取豪夺而致积怨,不如节俭而养心性。放纵自己满足欲望,不如节俭而安定性情。
"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music."
And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty.
Never stop learning. The moment you think you know it all is the moment you fail.