It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

  • -- Epicurus 伊壁鸠鲁

没有明智、良好和公正的生活是不可能过上愉快的生活的。不过一种愉快的生活是不可能明智地、良好地、公正地生活的。

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A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.

一个儿童作家站在讲台上发表演讲不是一件令人愉快的事情,但我已经有点不情愿地陷入了与年轻人、文化素养和青年正义有关的问题中:看看我们被关在监狱里的年轻人的数量,就知道了,这些年轻人毫无用处。

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

他们所生活的那个时代的最高权威曾说过许多事情都是不真实的,荒谬的,甚至是不可能的。后来,甚至在很短的时间内,人们发现这些事情都是可能的,也是真实的。

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

我们知道有些事情并不像我们对自己说的谎言那么令人愉快,从这个意义上说,为了生存,每个人在日常生活中都忍受着一定程度的不诚实。

Don't you see the starlight, starlight? Don't you dream impossible things?

你没有看到星光吗,星光?你不梦想不可能的事情吗?