The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The desire for recognition, the thymotic part of the soul, is the most political part of the human personality because it is what drives people to want to be recognized as superior to others.

现实的定义变成了：能够给出等价复制的东西。

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

种树的最佳时间是20年前，其次是现在。