Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

  • -- Marcus Tullius Cicero 西塞罗

年老时的忠告是愚蠢的;因为,有什么比我们越接近旅程的终点,就为道路增加给养更荒唐的事呢?

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I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.

我很惊讶为什么每个人都想知道我的爱情生活。他们低声对我说:‘跟我说实话?是真的吗?“谁在乎呢?因为我们有这份工作,我们就得告诉每个人我们在做什么,或者和谁睡觉?这有点荒谬,但这就是为什么每个人都爱说谎。

The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.

从句或句子中最强调的地方是结尾。这是高潮;在随后的短暂停顿中,那最后一个字似乎继续在读者的脑海中回荡。事实上,它是最后一个词。

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

一个孩子也永远无法理解这样一个事实:同样是这位母亲,她做饭做得那么好,那么关心他的咳嗽,那么慈祥地帮助他做作业,在某些情况下,她对他的感情不过是隐藏在他内心世界的一堵墙。

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

当士兵不再把他们的问题带给你的时候,就是你不再领导他们的时候。他们要么对你能帮助他们失去信心,要么认为你不在乎。这两种情况都是领导力的失败。

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

在每个人的生活中,总有那么一段时间,我们内心的火焰熄灭了。然后,它会因为与另一个人的相遇而燃烧起来。我们都应该感谢那些重新点燃内在精神的人。

I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.

我不反对设计一个新的养恤金制度,其中一个部分是以集体规定为基础的,但也鼓励人们采取额外的个人计划。

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

浪漫主义所谓的天才、才能或灵感,无非是凭经验找到正确的道路,跟着鼻子走,走捷径。

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

我们买威士忌的钱比我们买酒的钱还多;毕竟,这是一项非常有利可图的投资。

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

说一个男人不能一直爱一个女人,就像说一个小提琴手需要几把小提琴才能演奏同一首曲子一样,都是荒谬的。

The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling.

我能给各级妇女的最好建议是增加培训。我们仍有一些领域需要打破这一玻璃天花板。

Loving someone who doesn’t love you back is like hugging a cactus. The tighter you hold on, the more it hurts.

爱一个不爱你的人就像抱着一颗仙人掌。你抓得越紧,就越疼。

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.

一个甜蜜庄严的念头,一次又一次地向我走来;我今天比以往任何时候都离家更近了。

Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best.

几乎所有在周末赢得比赛的人都是那个推杆可能是最好的。

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

在我国人民走向自由的漫长而痛苦的道路上,你们,外国媒体,一直是我们的伙伴。

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

随着平等程度的提高,争取优势地位的人数也在增加。

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

知足不在于多添燃料,而在于少取火。

Grief is like a long journey. You wake each morning in a different place

悲伤就像一段漫长的旅程。你每天早上在不同的地方醒来

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

在上帝面前,我们都一样聪明——也一样愚蠢。

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

图画破坏墙壁的次数比装饰墙壁的次数要多。

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

没有所谓的“年老”,只有“悲伤”。

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

我认为一首好歌就是一首好歌就是一首好歌。

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

通往神圣之路穿过世俗。

Old age is not a joy, but death is not a gain.

老了不是一种快乐,死了也不是一种收获。

Our intention creates our reality.

我们的意图创造了我们的现实。

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

求知若饥,虚心若愚。