The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
我们每天支配的时间是有弹性的;我们感受到的激情会扩展它,我们激发的激情会收缩它;而习惯会填补剩下的部分。
【译文】我每天多次省察我自己:为别人做事有没有尽力,和朋友交往有没有不真诚,教别人的东西自己有没有研习好。
记忆的行为是一种抵抗行为。
上天安排我福分浅薄,我就培养高尚道德去迎接它;上天安排我身体劳顿,我就修炼精神安逸去弥补它;上天安排我遭遇艰危,我就努力实现政治理想去沟通它;上天安排我境况困苦,我就力求精神愉快去疏导它。
Mathematics is the science of order and patterns, and it is this order that allows us to understand the world around us.
我一直是一个斗士,而且我将永远是一个斗士。
To build is to take a stand in the world.