Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish-spawn. It’s not just getting them killed in wars: mere middle age snuffs out ten times more talent than ever wars and sudden death do.

  • -- Richard Hughes 理查德·休斯

大自然既浪费有前途的年轻人,也浪费鱼卵。这不仅仅是让他们在战争中丧生:仅仅中年就扼杀了十倍于以往任何战争和猝死的人才。

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

你我从来没有不存在过,我们也不会停止存在。正如一个人在童年、青年和老年时期都住在身体里一样,他在死时也获得了另一个身体。聪明人不会被这些变化所迷惑。

The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come.

在未来许多年里,我们的生活时间表将会被打乱。