The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

  • -- Blaise Pascal 巴斯卡

人们对小事的敏感和对大事的漠不关心,表明了一种奇怪的颠倒。

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We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

如果我们可以只分配三个类别,大、中、小,我们会很高兴;关键是,我们想避免个人判断。它实际上是一个非常精细的音阶。

Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God.

你要对一切大小人常说,他们若遵行你一切诫命,不违背神,是应当尽速乐意,毫无怨言,毫无争竞。

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

我们为婴孩的坟墓哭泣,为因死离我们而去的婴孩的坟墓哭泣;但是早睡早起可能是通往天堂的捷径。

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

是否应该用善于思考的人取代善于思考的人。

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

颜色是味觉和敏感性的问题。

People with the same disease share sympathy.

患有同样疾病的人有同感。