A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory.

  • -- John Steinbeck 约翰·斯坦贝克

一个垂死的民族容忍现在,拒绝未来,在过去的伟大和半记忆的荣耀中找到满足。

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Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

死亡和出生一样是偶然的,也常常是出人意料的。悲伤和快乐一样难以定义。都是有限的。每个会褪色。

Death is terrible to Cicero, desirable to Cato, and indifferent to Socrates.

死亡对西塞罗是可怕的,对卡托是可取的,对苏格拉底却是漠不关心的。