"The word is the shadow of the deed."

The world is a place of the living, and the dead have no place in it. The dead are nothing. They are not even a memory. They are forgotten. And the living, too, will be forgotten.

阅读好书，就如同与过去几个世纪中最杰出的人物交谈。

The rise of China and other authoritarian states challenges the idea that liberal democracy is the only viable political system.