We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

  • -- William Shakespeare 威廉·莎士比亚

我们不能设想物质是无中生有的,因为事物需要一粒种子从……因此,没有什么东西会归于虚无,而是所有的东西都回归到它们的元素中去了。

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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

我们的统治阶级的天才之处在于,它阻止了大多数人对一个大多数人辛辛苦苦地工作,却得不到任何回报地缴纳重税的制度的不公平提出质疑。

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.

我相信你们可以回去做一个图表显示所有对黑人男性的杀戮都是在经济困难时期增加的。事实上,去年有一个黑人被私刑处死。

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

衡量友谊的一个标准不是看朋友们可以讨论的事情的数量,而是看他们不再需要提及的事情的数量。

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

我们被任何我们没有意识到的东西所奴役。我们被有意识的知觉所解放。

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing

有成千上万的人愿意为一个愿意做一件小事的人做伟大的事情

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

什么东西能如此优雅,以致于拥有很少的需求,并为自己服务呢?

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

我们必须活下去,不管有多少天坠落。

He travels best that knows when to return.

知道什么时候回来的人旅行得最好。