Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

  • -- Vladimir Nabokov 弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫

自满是一种精神状态,它只存在于回顾中:它必须在被确定之前被粉碎。

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Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance.

同样,国家在处理个人留下的遗产方面的权利问题也表现出最重要的社会方面。

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

我们不是来这里受罪的。我们来到这里是为了尽我们所能,我们应该拿出我们的能量,改善我们的生存状态。