"A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever."
一本好书是最好的朋友,今天如此,永远如此。
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
Safety isn't a priority—priorities can change. Safety is a core value that never changes.
Concerning the gods, I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what form they might have, for there is much to prevent one's knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the shortness of man's life.