翻译：过去善于打仗的将领，首先做到自己不被敌人战胜，再等待时机战胜敌人。不被敌人战胜取决于自己做好准备、不犯错，是否能战胜敌人取决于敌人是否犯错。

It’s not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given to human beings who work hard at it — who look and sift the world for a mispriced bet — that they can occasionally find one.

文学的研究即是对生活本身的研究。

预测未来的最好方法就是创造它。

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.Discharge your duties faithfully and well.Systematically you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts...At the end of the day if you live long enough most people get what they deserve.

通过文学，我们可以理解世界和我们自己。