Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

  • -- William Shenstone 威廉·申斯通

宏伟与美丽是如此的对立,以至于你常常在增加美与减少美的同时,也在减少美。多样性与后者最为相似,简单性与前者最为相似。

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Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

不必要的财产是不必要的负担。如果你有它们,你必须照顾它们!简单的生活有很大的自由。最幸福的人是那些拥有足够但不太多的人。

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

如果我们活着,我们就活着;如果我们死了,我们就死了;如果我们受苦,我们就受苦;如果我们害怕,我们就会害怕。这没有问题。

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

年龄并不能减少冰淇淋从蛋卷上掉下来时的极度失望。