Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

  • -- Emil Cioran 萧沆

进步是每一代人对其前辈犯下的不公。

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Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

我们不知道塞内加的祷告是否得到了应允;但是,由于我们没有再听到马可的消息,他很可能比他的父亲先死,塞内加的家族,和许多伟人的家族一样,在第二代就绝迹了。

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them.

人类并非生来就有鞍,也不是少数人喜欢骑鞍。

There is something about this generation living now, that we don't accept death.

我们这一代人活在世上,有一些东西是我们不接受死亡的。

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

自己不愿意做的事,又去问别人,这是不公平的。