None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

没有人比那些失去热情的人更老了。

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Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

毫无疑问,良心足以引导最冷酷的人走上美德之路;热情之于良知,犹如荣誉之于责任;我们身上有一种多余的灵魂,当美好的事物完成后,把它奉献给美丽的事物是很甜蜜的。

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

古欧洲和古克里特岛的女神代表了自然界生命的统一,对形式的多样性、生、死和再生的力量感到高兴。

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

大多数人失败是因为他们缺乏坚持去制定新的计划来代替那些失败的计划。

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

年龄不是一个特别有趣的话题。任何人都可能变老。你所要做的就是活得足够长久。

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

那些最不拿自己开玩笑的人,会被别人的笑话逗乐。

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

永远不要让你的热情超过你的慈善。前者是人,后者是神。

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

没有人的自由是安全的,除非所有人的自由都得到保护。

We had said, it was either all of us or none of us.

我们说过,不是我们所有人,就是没有人。