How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

  • -- Francois Rabelais 拉伯雷

你怎么知道古代是愚蠢的?你怎么知道现在是明智的呢?是谁让它如此愚蠢?谁使它明智?

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When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

当你出名的时候,你不可能遇见别人,因为他们希望你喜欢他们在你面前的样子,而你看不到真正的人。

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.

目前的法律有一个程序来确定病人是否处于持续性植物人状态,政客们怎么想都不应该成为问题。

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.

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?

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

为死去的人哀悼是愚蠢和错误的。相反,我们应该感谢上帝,这样的人还活着。

If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.

如果你不冒险做傻事,你就永远不会做特别的事。

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

创造是所有的空间,所有的时间-所有的事情过去,现在和未来。

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

随着年龄的增长,人变得越来越聪明和愚蠢。