The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

  • -- Niccolò Machiavelli 尼科尔·马基雅维利

估计统治者智力的第一种方法是观察他身边的人。

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To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it.

教人们如何在没有确定性的情况下生活,同时又不被犹豫所麻痹,这也许是我们这个时代哲学能为那些研究哲学的人所做的主要事情。

I try not to worry about what that's going to look like. If you worry about looking stupid, that's when you look really stupid.

我尽量不去担心那会是什么样子。如果你担心自己看起来很蠢,那就是你看起来很蠢的时候。

The worst person to be around is one who complains about everything and appreciates nothing.

世上最糟糕的人,就是什么都抱怨,什么都不懂珍惜的人。

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

幽默并没有减少痛苦——它使周围的空间变得更大。

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

你有多聪明并不重要,除非你停下来思考。

The way clouds look when the sun is setting.

太阳落山时云的样子。