The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
过去是一个异国他乡;他们在那里行事不同。
The power of causal reasoning is that it allows us to predict the effects of actions we have never taken.
Laughing is good for you if you don't kill yourself.
社会源于我们的需求,政府产自我们的邪恶。前者通过凝聚我们的友爱,积极地增进我们的幸福,后者通过遏制我们的恶行,消极地促进我们的福祉。前者鼓励交往,后者制造差别。前者是庇护人,后者是惩罚者。