Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

  • -- Khalil Gibran 纪伯伦

死亡最像一个先知,他在自己的土地上没有荣誉,或者一个诗人,他在自己的人民中是一个陌生人。

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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

只有一个人的基本思想中才有真理和生命。因为这是他真正完全理解的。读别人的思想,就像吃别人吃剩的饭,就像穿陌生人丢弃的衣服。

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

诗人或散文叙述者通常会在回顾过去的岁月中所取得的成就时,发现其中一些成就是可以接受的,而另一些则不那么容易接受。

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

因为,做一个陌生人自然是一种非常积极的关系;这是一种特殊的互动形式。

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

在这里,先生,人民当家作主;在这里,他们由他们的直接代表采取行动。

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

试着把你周围的人当作你的伴侣。

You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.

如果你认为人们愚蠢,你就会破产。

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

我是我自己的实验。我是我自己的艺术品。

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

敲出虚伪,敲入真实。