The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

  • -- Horace 贺拉斯

愚妄人好像水面的涟漪,凡他所作的,都必速消没。但义人好像雕刻在石头上,因为他们最小的行为,也是长存的。

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It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.

在我看来,这是一个有价值的目标:试着创造一种持久而真实的意识表征,即这在一定程度上解释了在某一天,甚至某一特定时刻,我们头脑中发生的所有奇怪的、微小的、难以表达的、瞬间发生的、任性的事情。

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

一波又一波的爱淹没了舞台,冲刷着我,开始了我一生中最伟大、最持久的浪漫。

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

在你严肃的计划中掺杂一点愚蠢。在适当的时候犯傻是件好事。

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.

大多数人宁愿死也不愿思考;事实上,他们就是这么做的。

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

战争是雕刻和平明天的可怜的凿子。