When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

  • -- Germaine de Stael 杰曼·德·斯塔尔

当一个高贵的生命为年老做了准备,它所揭示的并不是衰微,而是不朽的最初日子。

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Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.

有些人把散文家的部分写得很好,因而在这一过程中获得了不朽的成就;但是我们没有很多这样的书,它们在我们的书架上只占一个可怜的数字。遗憾的是,事情竟如此发展,因为一位优秀的散文家是你能想象到的最愉快的伴侣。

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.

我要告诉你一个大秘密,我的朋友。不要等待最后的审判,它每天都在发生。