Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

  • -- G. Stanley Hall 斯坦利·霍尔

文明对身体的要求是如此之高,以至于有些人把它称为一种疾病,尽管艺术能让弱小的身体活到更大的平均年龄,也能更好地保护我们免受传染病和细菌性疾病的侵害。

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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

事实上,我们只能爱我们自己知道的。我们知道的不多。在公共事务中,在文明的重建中,需要一种不那么引人注目和情绪化的东西,即容忍。

When you have the means and information to cure a disease and don't . . . you are the disease.

当你有办法和信息治愈一种疾病而没有…你就是那疾病。

Medicine can only cure curable disease, and then not always.

药物只能治疗可治愈的疾病,而不能总是。

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

对我来说,礼貌是文明的必要条件。