谋划先于行动,就会繁荣昌盛;行动先于谋划,就会失败灭亡。点评:《中庸》曾言「凡事豫则立,不豫则废。」没有事先的计划和准备,做事情很难成功的。
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.