To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

  • -- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton 阿克顿

能够满意地回顾过去的生活,就等于活了两次。

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As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

作为一种实际行动的工具,法律对其所处时代的智慧作出反应,虽然这种智慧可能是错误的,但它有时与这种智慧或激情背道而驰,将所接受的价值观发扬光大。

He hauls at a long rope who expects another's death.

他拖着一根很长的绳子,以为别人会死。