不过是君主不把它[爱人利人]用在政事上,士大夫也不把它付诸行动罢了。 
You can have a lifetime of trying to get away from where you started out, and it’s only when you get there you realize you’ve brought it with you.
Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.
The Pompidou Centre is a giant Meccano set, a building turned inside out.
The magic number 150 suggests that the size of our social networks is limited by the size of our brains.