Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

没有什么比现实本身更魔幻。

不要因为别人辜负我就打消行善济人的念头，想想我当初帮助别人时，只不过是在同情心驱使下做出的举动，并未想着要别人报答。至于说遇上了忘恩负义的人，不必与之计较，付之一笑罢了。

The best way to make money is to not lose it.

"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

当准备遇到机会时，成功就会到来。