It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

白发并不能告诉我们一个人心灵的年龄。

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

如果你没有对许多矛盾力量的感觉，你就不可能生活在这个时代。

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

年老时做大的改变是不好的。

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

与生命相对的是老年，而不是死亡。老年是对生命的戏仿，而死亡则把生命变成了一种命运:在某种程度上，死亡通过赋予生命绝对的维度来保存生命。死亡能消磨时间。

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

只有通过书籍，我们才能分享人类文明的伟大成果。

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

想想莫扎特在我这个年纪时就已经去世一年了，真是发人深省。

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

年轻人对中年的恐惧，中年人对老年的恐惧，这是不忠的主要原因，而这正是万无一失的返老还母之道。

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

这是我们这个时代的弊病，年轻人忙于教导我们，以至于他们没有时间去学习。

It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change, particularly changes for the better

随着年龄的增长，人的本性就是反对变化，特别是向好的变化

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

这是子孙后代的特权，使那些因追求伟大而分裂了整个时代的对手之间的事情变得正确。

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

这个时代的精神是相信任何事实，无论多么可疑，都胜过任何想象的练习，无论多么真实。

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

是的，我几乎一生都认识施特劳斯。我从小就被教导的一件事就是他们错了。

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

把所有的玩耍和学习都放到童年，把所有的工作都放到中年，把所有的遗憾都放到老年，这是完全错误和残酷的武断。

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has been set like plaster, and will never soften again.

我们大多数人到三十岁的时候，性格已经定型，再也不会软化，这对世界是件好事。

It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage. There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last 'Put out the Light' was spoken.

似乎一个黑暗意图的夜晚即将来临，而不仅仅是一个夜晚，一个时代。最好有人做好发怒的准备。在上帝最后一次发出“灭光”的声音之前，将会有更多的海水被打破。