Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being any longer able to set bad examples.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

老年人喜欢给出好的建议,以安慰自己不再能树立坏榜样。

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There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

发现这些基本定律没有逻辑的方法。只有一种直觉的方法,那就是感觉表象背后的秩序。

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

当你年轻的时候,一切充满戏剧性的事情都是令人兴奋的,你开始相信那些天花乱坠的宣传,为了成为一名艺术家,你必须忍受痛苦。我已经从那所学校毕业了。

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

我父亲是最理性、最冷静的人。

By indignities men come to dignities.

人靠侮辱得尊荣。