"Stories are the way we make sense of our lives."

衡量一个人的真正标准是他如何对待那些对他毫无益处的人。

The melancholy science from which I make this offering to my friend relates to a region that from time immemorial was regarded as the true field of philosophy, but which, since the latter's conversion into method, has lapsed into intellectual neglect, sententious whimsy, and finally oblivion.

In things indifferent， nothing is preferable to anything else.