There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

  • -- Rainer Maria Rilke 赖内·马利亚·里尔克

有许多事情,一个老人应该在一个人还小的时候告诉他;因为当一个人长大了,就会理所当然地认识他们。

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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

我们不能设想物质是无中生有的,因为事物需要一粒种子从……因此,没有什么东西会归于虚无,而是所有的东西都回归到它们的元素中去了。

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

成功的人比竞争对手更早发现自己的生意出了什么问题。

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

我想要的是最好的一切,而现在已经所剩无几了。

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

有三样东西不能长久隐藏:太阳、月亮和真理。

I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn.

我想制造一点混乱,让人们转过头来。

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

知道的人,知道的人。其他的,真的不重要。

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

我遇到的每个人在某种程度上都是我的上司。

A good man is a man of goods.

好人是好人。