过去是一个异国他乡;他们在那里做事的方式不同。
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness.
解析:自然的法则,是损减有余来补充不足;人类社会世俗的作法却不然,而是损减贫穷不足来供奉富贵有余。