政治和文学都是改变现实的尝试，只是方式不同。
Politics and literature are both attempts to change reality, just in different ways.
我什么都不相信，这给了我极大的自由。
The desire for recognition, the thymotic part of the soul, is the most political part of man.
The books that we reread the most are the ones that most clearly describe the world we already know.
所有严肃的艺术都试图理解这个世界。
It must be remembered that while sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of joy in the world., sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. It may make man better able to endure evil, but the evil remains.
译文：人活着时想尽千方百计追求名利，一旦哪天死去万事都终结了。赏析：我们追求名利没有错，但不要把它看得太重。人生短短的几十年，活着本来就不容易，为了一点名利争个你死我活，到头来终是一场空。
You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.