Of one hundred persons who take up the spiritual life, eighty turn out to be charlatans, fifteen insane, and only five, maybe, get a glimpse of the real truth. Therefore beware.

  • -- Swami Vivekananda 辨喜

在一百个从事精神生活的人当中,有八十人是江湖骗子,十五人是疯子,也许只有五个人能看到真正的真相。因此要小心。

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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

当我年轻的时候,我对普鲁塔克所说的老卡托在八十岁时开始学希腊语感到惊讶。我不再感到惊讶了。老年人愿意承担年轻人逃避的任务,因为这些任务耗时太长。

A man may die old at thirty and young at eighty.

一个人可能在三十岁时老去,八十岁时年轻。