满口仁义道理，但内心却充满邪念，只责怪他人而从不责骂自己，这种人称为“挂榜圣贤”。只怕恶行为人所见，能敬畏鬼神，知人又知天理，这才是实际的学问。

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

释义：培养自己好的品德、性情，即使细微的地方，也一定要谨慎。

"The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter."

讽刺的真正目的是通过纠正来改善恶习。