If you are born poor it's not your mistake, but if you die poor it's your mistake.
如果你出生贫穷,那不是你的错。但如果你死时仍然贫穷,那就是你的错。
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
The first requisite of the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
The poem is an act of the mind, not a transcription of the world.