The dead are our silent collaborators in the quest for knowledge.

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

我不完美，但我追求完美。

【译文】孔子谈到季氏说：“他用天子的舞蹈阵容在自己的庭院中舞蹈，这样的事情都可以被容忍，还有什么是不能容忍的？”