过去两个世纪最重要的政治发展是现代国家的崛起。
The most important political development of the last two centuries has been the rise of the modern state.
The worst pain a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
爱不是胜利的进行曲,而是一声冰冷破碎的哈利路亚。