Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

  • -- Sallust 萨卢斯特

杰出的祖先给他们的后代带来了强大的光芒,禁止隐瞒他们的优点或缺点。

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My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.

我的名字——我没有中间的名字——是我的父亲,正如他告诉我的那样,在那片森林覆盖的山丘上独自行走时,选择了我的名字。他从以赛亚书第七章的一节中拣选了这句话;我们的祖宗中,没有以马内利所认识的。

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

有些人是你的亲戚,有些人是你的祖先,你选择你想要的人作为祖先。你从这些价值观中创造了自己。