What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

  • -- Johann Kaspar Lavater 拉瓦特

我该对我的时代、我的国家、我的邻居、我的朋友们做些什么呢?这就是一个有道德的人应该经常问自己的问题。

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People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

人们得到一个不好的印象通过不断尝试的人把它看成是一个银行职员,他周二应该准时,而不是哲学上看到它作为一个画家,他们可能做任何事情只要你不要试图预测。

I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.

父亲去世后,我很空虚。那是一段情感的时光,对任何人来说都是如此,但每天都呆在工作室里是一种宣泄和疗伤的方式,继续下去似乎很自然。

If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest.

如果崇高的死亡是美德的最主要部分,那么我们比所有人都更幸运,我们带着自由的皇冠为希腊而奋斗,我们死了,在无尽的荣耀中安息。

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

勇气是一架梯子,其他美德全靠它爬上去。