To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
旅行是发现每个人对其他国家的看法都是错误的。
【译文】 孔子说：“君子通晓道义，小人通晓私利。”
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
小说的艺术在于让读者忘记作家的存在。
历史上的重大战争——我们被告知，而且被告知的是真实的——是国家不平等增长的直接或间接结果。
Sometimes, it's not that the other person doesn't care about you, but that you care too much about them.