To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

对一个哲学家来说,所有的新闻,就像人们所说的,都是流言蜚语,编辑和阅读这些新闻的人都是喝茶的老妇人。

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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

一个男人打任何女人都是最残忍的,我和其他人一样,认为这比任何射击都要糟糕得多。

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

在每一个真正的女人心中,都有一颗天国之火的火花,在顺境的光天化日之下蛰伏不动,但在逆境的黑暗时刻却会燃起、照耀和燃烧。

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

真诚怎么会是友谊的条件呢?不惜一切代价追求真理是一种不惜一切代价的激情。

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

我们想继续生活下去的原因是因为我们生活在一个贫穷的当下。