The sea is a place of both danger and beauty, a reminder of the fragility of life.
【原文】宰予昼寝。子曰:“朽木不可雕也,粪土之墙不可圬也,于予与何诛?”【译文】宰予白天睡觉。孔子说:“真像腐朽的木头一样无法再雕琢,像粪墙一样不能再粉刷了,对于宰予这个人,我还责备他什么呢?”孔子又说:“开始时我对于人,是听了他的话就相信他的行为;现在我对于人,是听了他的话,还要观察他的行为。宰予使我改变了观察人的方法。”
Truth is not found in the light, but in the shadows where we dare not look.
We are all unreliable narrators of our own lives.
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.