If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

  • -- Simone Weil 西蒙娜·韦伊

如果我们正遭受疾病、贫穷或不幸,我们认为在它停止的那一天我们就会得到满足。但在这一点上,我们也知道它是假的;一旦一个人习惯了不受苦,他就想要别的东西。

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There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

南非有许多富有的人,他们能够与那些未能克服贫困的不幸的人分享这些财富。

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

贪婪是万恶之源,贫穷是万恶之源。

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

以默默的刚毅束紧你们的心,忍受苦难,却又满怀希望。

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

如果苦难带来智慧,我希望自己不要那么聪明。