How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

  • -- Edwin Way Teale 艾温·威·蒂尔

少数人的苦难是多么鲜明,而人民是多么稀少,两次世界大战中无数无名百姓的苦难是多么被数字模糊了。

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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

最好的历史不过是伦勃朗的艺术;它生动地揭示了某些特定的原因,那些最好的和最伟大的原因;它把其余的一切都留在阴影里,看不见。

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

首要目标是减轻痛苦,而不是延长寿命。如果你的治疗不能减轻痛苦,而只能延长生命,那就应该停止治疗。

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

苦难是这个世界的积极因素,的确,它是这个世界与积极因素之间的唯一联系。