The power of the state should be used to protect the rights of the individual, not to suppress them.

健康的国民是一个国家能拥有的最大财富。

The fundamental fact about all of us is that we're alive for a while but will die before long.

如果使人们喜怒无常，居处不定，思虑不得要领，行事中途就乱了章法；那么，天下间就会出现各种不平与不合理，而后像盗拓或者曾参、史鳅做的那些事情，都会发生。

The historian must be a poet and a philosopher.