"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."

The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists.

Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.

【大意】一个国家如果没有正义，即使再强大也定会灭亡。一个人如果没有良善的志趣，即使勇猛也必会遭遇挫伤。