Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

  • -- Robert Browning 罗伯特·布朗宁

就像轮子上的狗,笼子里的鸟,或链子上的松鼠一样,雄心勃勃的人仍在不停地往上爬,付出了巨大的劳动和无尽的焦虑,却永远爬不到顶端。

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In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

与人生这个阶段令人羡慕的想法形成鲜明对比的是,我们听到人们对变老感到高度焦虑,对健康、机动性、设施的可及性、简单的日常护理和关注感到焦虑。

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

如果人生来就是自由的,那么只要他们还保持自由,他们就不会形成任何善恶的概念。

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

没有焦虑和疾病,我就像一艘没有舵的船。

It takes two men to make one brother.

一个兄弟需要两个人。