译文：老农种地虽不直接参与国政，但其勤惰关系国家兴衰。提醒统治者重视民生根本。

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable to no one.

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

有时最深刻的数学来自于玩弄简单的想法，直到它们展现出隐藏的复杂性。