Of one hundred persons who take up the spiritual life, eighty turn out to be charlatans, fifteen insane, and only five, maybe, get a glimpse of the real truth. Therefore beware.

  • -- Swami Vivekananda 辨喜

在一百个从事精神生活的人当中,有八十人是江湖骗子,十五人是疯子,也许只有五个人能看到真正的真相。因此要小心。

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Presently I shall be introduced as ‘this venerable old gentleman’ and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of ‘grand old man’. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.

不久,我将被介绍为“这位德高望重的老先生”,当他们把我提升到“德高望重的老先生”的地位时,斧头就会掉下来。这意味着在我们的大陆上,任何一个有着雪白头发的人都能在监狱里呆到八十岁。

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

一个八十岁的老人可能比三个新的绘画流派、两个建筑和诗歌流派以及一百个服装流派都活得长。