There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

没有什么比一个年轻的悲观主义者更悲哀的了。

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We live in a world that tells us not to care, to consume everything in sight. It tells us that being cool and being an individual actually means buying what everyone else is buying and doing what everyone else is doing.

我们生活的世界告诉我们不要在意,要消费眼前的一切。它告诉我们,酷和作为一个个体实际上意味着买别人买的和做别人做的。

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

傲慢不应使我们忽视那些对我们来说很容易的事情,绝望也不应使我们在困难面前失去勇气。

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

我想,没有什么,甚至没有犯罪,比这种没完没了的工作更反对诗歌,更反对哲学,更反对生活本身了。

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

我想指出的是,生活模仿艺术远远超过艺术模仿生活的一般原则。

If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough.

如果你是一对年轻的夫妇,刚开始工作的时候都在工作,想要抚养孩子,那就很难了。

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

少年人哪,苦难不是徒然从那良善的神那里来的。

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

悲观主义者是过早说出真相的人。

People don't like to follow pessimists.

人们不喜欢追随悲观主义者。