We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

  • -- Gerald Brenan 杰拉尔德·布雷南

我们离蚂蚁比蝴蝶更近。很少人能忍受太多的闲暇。

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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

人们需要一个神圣的故事。他们必须有一种更大的目标感,以某种形式存在,无论多么理智。他们将找到一种方法来保持祖先的灵魂活着。

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.

当人们不太喜欢自己的时候,他们必须弥补。典型的恃强凌弱者实际上首先是受害者。

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

闲暇是做一些有用的事情的时间。这种闲暇勤奋的人永远得不到懒惰的人。

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

在所有文明人的眼里,休闲生活本身及其后果是美丽而高贵的。