在旧制度下，努力工作意味着尽可能少做。
Hard work, under the old system, meant doing as little as possible.
每个人都是自己故事里的英雄。
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
"History is not the past. It is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."
历史不是过去。它是我们进化出来的组织我们对过去无知的方法。