大国总是在寻找机会以牺牲对手为代价来获得权力，如果他们认为使用武力会带来战略优势，他们就会使用武力。
The great powers are always searching for opportunities to gain power at the expense of their rivals, and they will use force if they believe it will bring them strategic advantage.
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway.
The knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form, but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals possess.
不可因为个人喜欢而滥赏，不可因为个人恼怒而诛杀。
解释：将自己的利益给了别人，别人也将会把实惠返回给自己；将自己的怨恨发泄给别人，祸害也将会降临到自己身上。
