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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It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

很难用一句话来描述我的研究激起的热情和奉献精神。我们几乎生活在贫困之中。我用过铅笔,两支五分钱一支,我的钢笔丢了,也买不到自来水笔。

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

如果你的日常生活看起来很糟糕,不要责怪它;责备你自己,你还不够诗人,不能唤起它的丰富;对于造物主来说,没有贫穷。

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming it.

虽然世界多苦难,但是苦难总是能战胜的。

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。