过去是一个跟随我们的影子，但决定它是否会遮蔽我们未来的是我们自己。

Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.

试图始终不做愚蠢的事，而不是试图变得非常聪明，像我们这样的人从中获得了多么巨大的长期优势，这是非常值得注意的。