Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

友谊不过是与他人的愚蠢和不幸结盟的另一个名称。我们自己的那份痛苦就够了:那么,为什么要自愿地进入别人的痛苦呢?

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The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

几乎无法解决的任务是,既不让他人的力量,也不让我们自己的无能为力使我们麻木。

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

我是我自己的实验。我是我自己的艺术品。