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What sense would it make or what would it benefit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
如果一个医生发现了这些疾病的起源，却不能治愈或减轻它们，这又有什么意义呢?又有什么好处呢?
— Paracelsus 帕拉塞尔苏斯
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更多好句 ↗The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
爱好浪漫的人可以到别处去寻求满足，但爱好真理的人如果不求助于历史，又能向何处求助呢?
Katharine Anthony
凯萨琳·安东尼
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
不能从历史中吸取教训的人注定要重蹈覆辙。
George Santayana
乔治·桑塔亚纳
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
在文学史上，有许多伟大而不朽的作品，是作者生前没有发表过的。如果作者在写作中没有得到自我肯定，又怎么能继续写作呢?
Gao Xingjian
高行健
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.
要想知道人们在特定时期过着怎样的生活，唯一的方法就是挖掘他们的记录，让他们为自己说话。
John Dos Passos
约翰·多斯·帕索斯
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
如果历史不断重演，而意想不到的事情总是发生，那么人类一定无法从经验中学习。
George Bernard Shaw
萧伯纳
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
在人类(以及动物)的漫长历史中，那些学会了最有效地合作和即兴发挥的人占了上风。
Charles Darwin
查尔斯·达尔文