Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

人类所处的环境使人类遭受了无数的痛苦和悲伤,然而,仿佛大自然在生活中播种的罪恶还不够多,我们还在不断地增加痛苦,通过彼此间的残忍对待使共同的灾难更加恶化。

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Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

往往需要一些灾难才能让我们活在当下。然后我们突然醒来,看到我们犯的所有错误。

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

躲藏的地方有无数,逃跑的只有一个,但是逃跑的可能性,再一次,和躲藏的地方一样多。

An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from.

忘恩负义的人就像树下的猪吃橡子,却从不抬头看橡子从何而来。

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

灾难是一面完美的镜子,在那里我们能真实地看见和认识自己。

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

我想成为白人的兄弟,而不是他的姐夫。