The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

  • -- Anton Chekhov 安东·契诃夫

这个世界的灭亡不是因为强盗和火灾,而是因为仇恨、敌意和所有这些琐碎的争吵。

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There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

没有任何方法可以客观地对待任何事情。我们完全主观的;我们对世界的看法完全取决于我们是谁,男人还是女人,取决于我们的年龄,我们的历史,我们的职业,以及世界的状况。

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

历史上有很多好故事。这就是我从事这一行的主要原因:我想证明历史是有趣的。

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

我们希望,当昆虫占领世界的时候,它们会带着感激的心情记住我们带它们一起去野餐的情景。

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

重要的不是生命,而是美好的生命。