The best fertilizer is the farmer's shadow on the field.
最好的肥料是农民在田地上的身影。
最好的建筑既是谦逊的，又是英雄的。
君子这样来造船车，所以属下都效法他，因此他的人民就会饥寒交迫，不得不做奸邪的事。奸邪的事情一多，刑罚就重，刑罚一重，国家就混乱。国君若真的希望天下太平而不希望天下大乱的话，如果要做船车，就不能不节俭。
过去半个世纪最重要的政治发展是自由民主在世界范围内的传播。
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving...