To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

要对一个著名人物的性格作出公正的评价,就必须以他所处时代的标准,而不是以我们这个时代的标准来判断。

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Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

冬天不要砍树。不要在情绪低落的时候做出消极的决定。永远不要在你心情最糟的时候做最重要的决定。等待。要有耐心。暴风雨会过去的。春天就要来了。

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

甚至在高中我就对历史很感兴趣——为什么人们会做他们所做的事情。当我还是个孩子的时候,我花了很多时间试图把过去和现在联系起来。