Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

  • -- Edward Gibbon 爱德华·吉本

书籍是忠实的镜子,它向我们的心灵反映了圣人和英雄的思想。

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Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

你要吩咐人,不可接待人,也不可留他们在你家里,或是在你家里,或是在外边,倘若人没有合理的理由相信他们是忠心的,谨守的,在接待他们的事上是尽心竭力的,又诚实又有礼貌的。

I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.

如果我在读小说,我甚至会感到内疚,因为我觉得我应该再读一次荷马。我真的不知道什么是空闲时间,因为我没有什么东西可以衡量它。

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

求你帮助我们永远作圣灵忠实的园丁,因为他们知道,没有黑暗,就没有生命;没有光明,就没有花朵。

We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.

我们通过眼睛互相了解对方,从解剖学上讲,眼睛是我们大脑的延伸。当我们与某人目光相遇时,我们会看到对方的内心。

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

个体在其个体化中反映了预先设定的剥削的社会规律,尽管这些规律是经过中介的。

So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.

只要地球上还有无知和苦难,这样的书就不会没用。

The end mirrors the beginning. In the end, its about a woman & a city.

结局反映了开始。最后,它是关于一个女人和一个城市。

We live and breathe words.

我们活着,呼吸着语言。