Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

  • -- Blaise Pascal 巴斯卡

习惯是我们的天性。除了习俗的原则,我们的自然原则是什么?

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I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.

我开始用天启的眼光看世界。我们的社会似乎是由混凝土和习俗建造而成的,它只是一个临时的休息场所,是我们的文明在几百年前入住的酒店,总有一天会退房。

On entering a country, ask what is forbidden, on entering a village, ask what are the customs, on entering a private house, ask what should not be mentioned.

进入一个国家,问什么是禁止的,进入一个村庄,问什么是风俗习惯,进入一个私人住宅,问什么是不应该提到的。