The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

宰相必须从地方官员中选拔，猛将必须从士兵中产生

Old soldiers never die. They just fade away.

一件事不一定是真的或假的；它可能既是真的又是假的。