The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

  • -- Florence Nightingale 佛罗伦萨南丁格尔

烈士们白白牺牲了自己。或者更确切地说,不是徒劳无功;因为他们使自私的人更自私,使懒惰的人更懒惰,使狭窄的人更狭窄。

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Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.

最后,和演员们的约会,对我来说就像晚上逛街聊天一样。过了一会儿我就厌倦了。所以我越出名,我的选择就越窄。

Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.

大多数时候,真正改变世界的东西存在的根本原因是自私,而改变世界最终只是自私的副作用。

It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

如果其他自私的国家不像过去那样干涉,它是可以重建的。

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

艺术是如此博大,人类的智慧是如此狭隘。