Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

  • -- Vladimir Nabokov 弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫

自满是一种精神状态,它只存在于回顾中:它必须在被确定之前被粉碎。

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While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

只要国家存在,就不可能有自由;有自由就没有国家。

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

一个法律少而又严格遵守法律的国家治理得更好。