The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

  • -- Bertrand Russell 罗素

奴隶注定要崇拜时间、命运和死亡,因为它们比他在自己身上发现的任何东西都要伟大,因为他所有的思想都是被时间、命运和死亡吞噬的。

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When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

当一个好人投身于奴隶制的倡导时,他必须至少在一段时间内,在他的新思想、学说和推理模式中,感到自己除了在家里之外,什么地方都是自在的。

You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.

你真的必须努力创造空间,至少在一段时间内,阻止政治世界涌入。重要的是保持理智。

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

依赖一种职业,比依赖父亲,是一种不那么可恶的奴役形式。

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; in time of adversity not one amongst twenty.

顺境时朋友多;患难时二十个人中没有一个。

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

如果我离开,现实将吞噬我。然后他们就真的都死了。

It needs but slight provocation to make the wolf devour the lamb.

只要稍加挑衅,狼就会把羊羔吃掉。