【译文】 孔子在河边说：“时光如流水！日夜不停留。”

And I went to talk to them about certain of the great tragedies of Western art. I wanted to see how they would seize the bare bones of certain stories, if they came in as a news item at the news desk on a Saturday afternoon.

对财产的过度关注，胜过一切其他因素，阻碍了我们自由高尚地生活。

The idea that we will make a society where literally everybody is graded, the good at the top, bad at the bottom, exactly done as it should be, is impossible. There are simply too many random factors: accidents, accidents of birth, accidents of things dropping on people's heads, illnesses, etc. We will never get to grade them, never get to grade people as they should.

如果你不说出你的想法，那么你就扼杀了你未出生的自我。

我从十五岁开始致力于学习，三十岁便能自立于社会了，四十岁对各种事理不再迷惑不解，五十岁懂得了自然界的规律，六十岁对听到的事情能领会贯通，并能辨别是非真伪，七十岁时做事能随心所欲，但又不会超出礼法的规范。

圆滑就是能让人满怀憧憬的走向地狱。