The ripeness, or unripeness, of the occasion (as we said) must ever be well weighed; and generally it is good, to commit the beginnings of all great actions to Argus, with his hundred eyes, and the ends to Briareus, with his hundred hands; first to watch, and then to speed.

时机成熟与否，必须仔细权衡。大事开端宜交给百眼的阿耳戈斯，收尾宜交给百手的布里阿瑞俄斯：先审慎观察，再迅速行动。