Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them.

  • -- Francois Marie Arouet 阿鲁埃

通常,精明的人非但没有决定自己的命运,反而屈服于命运。

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Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment.

我们必须是第一个在非物质层面上的伟大目标不是实现而是调整的时代。

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

我喜欢树,因为它们似乎比其他东西更顺从于它们的生活方式。