If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
有独创性的作家，除非死了，否则总是令人震惊、令人愤慨的；新奇的事物会扰乱和排斥。
译文：亲近贤臣，疏远小人，这是西汉兴盛的原因;亲近小人，疏远贤臣，这是东汉衰败的原因。