What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person， or in the same body of magistrates， there can be no liberty.

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

翻译：大地的气势宽厚和顺，君子应增厚美德，容载万物。