真正的智能一定是能够理解、推理和决策的。

译文：人生最大的祸事，都在转瞬之间不会忍耐，因此做事一定要慎重小心。赏析：为人处世，如果事事都要和别人争高低，矛盾和冲突在所难免，其后果对双方都不利。如果有一方懂得退让和忍耐，祸患自然就会消失。

Writing is a way of preserving the ephemeral.

凡事需多听但少言；聆听他人之意见，但保留自己之判断。

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any society, because it seeks to turn other ideas — uncertainty, progress, change — into crimes.

If someone tells you he is going to make a “realistic decision”, you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.