If a person can be self restrained for the sake of morality, then he can't stand the contempt of the person he loves.
如果說一個人可以為了道德而自我克制的話,那他絕對無法忍受他所鐘愛的人的輕蔑。
I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words.
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods. You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we're all greedy people. I don't think we are particularly materialistic. I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. It's not the material goods we want;
The elegance of a theory is not just in its mathematical formulation, but in its ability to connect disparate phenomena under a unified framework.