释义：看到已经发生的事情要谨慎对待将要发生的事情，厌恶某种行为轨迹的人必须避开它。害怕危险的人才能平安，害怕灭亡的人才能生存。这是对谨慎行事、防患未然的智慧的强调。

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

【译文】 孔子说：“读书不想事，越学越糊涂；想事不读书，越想越头痛。”