It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

  • -- John Steinbeck 约翰·斯坦贝克

在我看来,如果你或我必须在两种思想或行动之间做出选择,我们应该记住我们的死亡,并努力活着,使我们的死亡不会给世界带来快乐。

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A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

一位名副其实的科学家,差不多都是数学家,在他的作品中体验到了与艺术家相同的感受;他的快乐是一样的伟大和相同的性质。

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

重要的问题不是,什么能使人获得一些分散的快乐,而是什么能使他的生活总体上幸福。

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

如果我比其他人更关心死亡,那可能是因为我比他们更热爱生活。

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

我坚信,在作出道德决定时,人类拥有真正的选择自由。

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

生命和死亡。总有一天我们会离开这个世界。我知道什么时候吗?绝对不是。

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

在我们和天堂或地狱之间只有生命,这是世界上最脆弱的东西。

I'm living the best life that I could ever be living.

我过着我能过的最好的生活。

To err is human, to persist in it, beastly.

人非圣贤,孰能无过。