The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

  • -- Walter Savage Landor 兰德

智慧人的著作是我们后代唯一不能挥霍的财富。

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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

我希望后代对我的评价是仁慈的,不仅对我所解释的事情,而且对那些我故意省略的事情,以便留给别人去发现的乐趣。

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

这是子孙后代的特权,使那些因追求伟大而分裂了整个时代的对手之间的事情变得正确。

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

财富不在于拥有财富,而在于使用财富。

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

我并不富有得离谱,但我也不浪费钱。

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

许多人轻视财富;很少有人能把它们送人。