While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

虽然文明一直在改善我们的住房,但它并没有同样改善住在其中的人。它创造了宫殿,但创造贵族和国王并不容易。

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I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.

我尊重别人的信仰。我对自己的生活的信念是,它是对我如何能把事情做得更好的探索,无论是做一个更好的男人还是一个更好的父亲,或是为自己找到改进的方法。

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

人类不可能拯救文明,除非他能进化出一个与天堂和地狱无关的善恶体系。

When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.

当你知道人们对他们自己和他们所做的事情都很平静的时候,他们就会合作并想要帮助你提高。

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

和平是文明的美德。战争是它的罪行。