The compulsion of fate is bitter.

  • -- Christoph Martin Wieland 克里斯多夫·马丁·维兰德

命运的强迫是痛苦的。

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For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

因为马被迫所作的,正如西门所见,都是无知的。它也没有什么美,就像一个人鞭打一个跳舞的人一样。

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?

既然什么是道德就是一个有智慧的人的自由行为,那么在强迫之下所做的行为怎么可能有道德成分呢?

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

如果我们因为想象力的萎缩而毁灭自己,那将是一个苦涩的宇宙笑话。

Labour has a bitter root, but a sweet taste.

劳动有苦的根,但有甜的味。