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The poor---that is, the people whose death interests no one.
穷人,也就是那些对死亡毫无兴趣的人。
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline 路易-费迪南德·塞利纳
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更多好句 ↗Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
人类的仁慈从来没有削弱过一个自由民族的耐力,也从来没有软化过他们的意志。一个国家并不一定要残酷才能强硬。
Franklin D. Roosevelt
富兰克林·罗斯福
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
苦难并不能使品格高尚;幸福有时能做到这一点,但苦难在很大程度上使人心胸狭窄,产生报复心。
W. Somerset Maugham
威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
在闲暇时,我们揭示了我们是什么样的人。
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
奥维迪乌斯纳索(奥维德)
There is nothing more soul destroying than respectable selfishness.
没有什么比体面的自私更能摧毁灵魂了。
Stan Almendro
斯坦·阿尔门德罗
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
当人类学习理解和控制自己的行为,就像他学习理解和控制农作物和家畜的行为一样,他就有理由相信自己已经变得文明了。
Ayn Rand
艾恩·兰德
We must have a weak spot or two in a character before we can love it much.
我们必须在性格中有一两个弱点,才会喜欢上它。
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯,老。