The mind is a complex of interacting elements.

Don’t let success go to your head or failure go to your heart.

过去并未死去；它活在我们选择记住和重述的故事中。

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

别到处说世界亏欠了你。世界什么都不欠你的，你还没出生它就在这儿了。

The beauty of literature is that it allows us to live a thousand lives in one.

The state, therefore, has not existed from all eternity. There have been societies that did without it, that had no notion of the state or state power. At a certain stage of economic development, which was necessarily bound up with the split of society into classes, the state became a necessity.