L. Jin

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Alexander never did what he said, Cesare never said what he did.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.”
― James Madison

“历史者，所以说明社会进化的过程者也。”
― 吕思勉