在你年老之前，尽可能多地参加你能承受的葬礼，并仔细倾听。没有人会谈论逝者的成就。人们唯一会记得的是你在取得成就时是个什么样的人。

The essence of modernity is psychologism, the experiencing and interpretation of the world in terms of the reactions of our inner life and indeed as an inner world, the dissolution of fixed contents in the fluid element of the soul, from which all that is substantive is filtered and whose forms are merely forms of motion.

态度上的弱点会变成性格上的弱点。

解释：栋梁不厚实，就不能承受房屋的重量。最重要的莫过于国事，对于栋梁人才来说，最重要的莫过于德行。