Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  • -- Augustine of Hippo 河马的奥古斯丁

人们到国外去,对高山的高度、大海的巨浪、河流的长流、浩瀚的海洋的罗盘、星星的圆周运动感到惊奇,而他们自己却毫不惊奇地走过了。

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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

传道的目的,是要不断地提醒世人,他们常常忘记的事;不是为了提供智力,而是为了加强人类意志的软弱。

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

如果人生来就是自由的,那么只要他们还保持自由,他们就不会形成任何善恶的概念。

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

人类在最绝望的时候往往是在最好的时候。

Study men, not historians.

研究男性,而不是历史学家。