The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

任何东西的价格都是你为它付出的生命的数量。

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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

爱在于付出而不求回报;给予别人不欠别人的,别人也不欠你的。这就是为什么真爱从来就不是建立在公平交换的基础上的,就像功利或快乐的联想一样。

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

我告诉你们,自由的代价是血,而且一直是人的血。如果我们的自由丧失了,我们将永远无法恢复,除非以血为代价。它们决不能丢失。

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

共享这一理念的国家应该能够在不排斥其他国家的情况下走得更远,因为它们仍然可以生活在一个更大的交流与合作社区中。

There's a terrible price to pay for stress in your life - it really takes a hit on your heart.

为生活中的压力付出了可怕的代价——它真的会打击你的心脏。