Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

  • -- Marcus Tullius Cicero 西塞罗

年老时的忠告是愚蠢的;因为,有什么比我们越接近旅程的终点,就为道路增加给养更荒唐的事呢?

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Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish.

每个人都有权在安全、美丽的空间里从城市的一端走到另一端。每个人都有权乘坐公共交通工具。每个人都有权利在自己的街道上一览无余,而不是到处都是栏杆、标志和垃圾。

When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.

当我听到这个消息时,我意识到时间过得真快,每个人都在自己的旅途中,他们总是令人难以置信,他们从不去你认为他们会带你去的地方,坦白地说,这也让我觉得自己有点老了。

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

一个孩子也永远无法理解这样一个事实:同样是这位母亲,她做饭做得那么好,那么关心他的咳嗽,那么慈祥地帮助他做作业,在某些情况下,她对他的感情不过是隐藏在他内心世界的一堵墙。

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

教育的最终目的是幸福或美好的人生,一种因拥有各种美好、因享受各种满足而充实的人生。

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

我们买威士忌的钱比我们买酒的钱还多;毕竟,这是一项非常有利可图的投资。

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

人是多么荒谬啊!他们从不使用他们拥有的自由,他们要求他们没有的自由。他们有思想自由,他们要求言论自由。

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

通往地狱最安全的路是循序渐进的——平缓的斜坡,柔软的脚下,没有突然的转弯,没有里程碑,没有路标。

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

即使在我们看来是最荒谬和最愚蠢的几个世纪里,对美的永恒的欲望总是能得到满足。

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

我们成功的企业,需要我们所拥有的积极的品质,但我们在那些也可以利用我们的缺点。

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

我想,没有什么,甚至没有犯罪,比这种没完没了的工作更反对诗歌,更反对哲学,更反对生活本身了。

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

任何两个人之间的差别,都不可能比同一个人、情人和丈夫之间的差别更大。

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

对我们的朋友来说,重要的是要相信我们对他们是毫无保留的坦诚,而对友谊来说,重要的是我们不是。

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

想象一下,如果你睡着了,或者完全没有知觉、毫无头绪,你就不得不在很大程度上不觉得自己很荒谬。

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

官员的尊严往往与任职国家的重要性成反比。

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.

一个甜蜜庄严的念头,一次又一次地向我走来;我今天比以往任何时候都离家更近了。

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

书是飞机、火车和道路。它们是目的地,也是旅程。他们都回家了。

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

路中间就是白线所在的地方——这是最不适合开车的地方。

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

我只是在写作的时候,脑子里想着一个聪明的读者。我不考虑他们的年龄。

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

爱恨我们的人比爱我们的人更接近我们。

Don't you be fooled, I loved you more than i would ever dare tell you.

别被骗了,我爱你比我敢告诉你的还要多。

You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.

你们不会看到你们的税收增加一分钱。

Who would have thought it would end up like this?

谁会想到会这样呢?

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.

对盲人来说,点头就像眨眼一样好。

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

宁为聪明的愚夫,不作愚蠢的才子。

Love is the goal, life is the journey.

爱是目标,生活是旅程。