It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

这是子孙后代的特权,使那些因追求伟大而分裂了整个时代的对手之间的事情变得正确。

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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

你所需要的一切你都已经拥有了。你现在是完整的,你是一个完整的人,而不是去其他地方的学徒。你的完整性必须被你理解,并在你的思想中体验到你自己的个人实相。

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

我想人们不会因为什么而记住我。但我不会用这些术语来思考我的工作。为子孙后代而工作和为金钱而工作一样庸俗。

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate; As the voyage along thru life; 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.

命运之路有如海风;如同一生的航程;决定目标的是灵魂的意志,而不是平静或冲突。

Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

希望我们能建立竞争关系,我们能做很多这样的事情。留下一笔遗产,然后退役冠军。

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

只有一生伟大的人才是真正伟大的人。伟大的考验是历史的一页。

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

语言本身不能充分表达灵魂的现实或人类精神的伟大。

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

在被众多出版商拒绝后,他决定为子孙后代写作。

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

荒谬的特权;除了人以外,没有任何生物服从于它。

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

我是一个特权阶级的孩子,我醒来时看到的是一个着火的世界。