冲突是思想的牛蝇。它激发我们观察和记忆。它激励创新。它将我们从羊群般的被动性中惊醒，并让我们留心观察和设计。

交易中最重要的是保持在场。你必须能够度过糟糕的时期才能迎来好的时期。

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

自然知识的改进者绝对拒绝承认权威。对他来说，怀疑主义是最高的责任；盲目信仰是不可饶恕的罪过。

译文：如果考虑人间的好事与坏事，缓慢事和急促事，不如去帮助穷苦的人和可怜贫穷的人。赏析：人要有慈悲心肠，怜悯众生之心，有善心还不行，必须要去做实事，去帮助那些穷困之人。