It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

  • -- Honoré de Balzac 尊敬的巴尔扎克

做一个爱人比做一个丈夫容易,原因很简单:每天保持机智比时不时地说些好听的话更难。

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When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.

当我听到这个消息时,我意识到时间过得真快,每个人都在自己的旅途中,他们总是令人难以置信,他们从不去你认为他们会带你去的地方,坦白地说,这也让我觉得自己有点老了。

But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.

但与此同时,我和一些仍在工作的矿工一起下了矿,他们都是年轻人,比我年轻,他们知道自己的工作生涯即将结束,他们突然感到被隔绝了。

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

人的本性就是如此,无论他们如何承认别人比自己更机智、更雄辩或更有学问;然而,他们几乎不会相信有许多人像他们一样聪明。

Conquered people tend to be witty.

被征服的人往往很机智。