History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

  • -- Christian Lous Lange 克里斯蒂安·劳斯·朗格

历史告诉我们,其他高度发达的文明形式已经崩溃。谁知道同样的命运是否正等着我们呢?

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Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

我有贪食的症状吗?自从我被任命为库务长以来,我从国王那里得到过拨款吗?难道我的行为和同岗位的其他人的行为不同吗?

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

每个人都认为这个文明已经持续了很长时间,但它真的需要很少的祖父的孙女带我们回到黑暗时代。

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

文明始于秩序,在自由中成长,在混乱中消亡。

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

别让同一条狗咬你两次。