Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

  • -- Robert Herrick 罗伯特·赫里克

每个人都必须在美德上力争卓越;那个人活得比第一次好两次。

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If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

如果人类的生命可以用年数、几十年的意识形态和几百年的国家来衡量,那么衡量文明的单位,即各民族之间相互作用所产生的文明,将是一个千年。

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

诗歌的优点是能够在一半的时间里说两倍于散文的话,缺点是,如果你没有把全部的注意力放在诗歌上,那么你似乎在两倍的时间里说了一半的话。

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

人是败坏的神。当人是清白的时候,生命就会更长久,就会进入不朽,就像我们轻轻地从梦中醒来一样。

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

总的来说,人类想要变好,但不是太好,也不是一直都很好。

We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives.

我们不应该害怕教授拯救生命的保护措施。

A man's ego is a fragile thing; as fragile as a woman's heart.

一个人的自我是脆弱的;像女人的心一样脆弱。