爱国心为立国之要素。 - 每日文摘

何世无奇才，遗之在草泽。

译文：哪个时代没有奇才?只是他们被遗弃在荒野之中。

左思

没有一朵花，一开始便是花；也没有一朵花，直到最后仍是花。

佚名

这种冷淡使我痛⼼，但我也赞成它对⼼怀叵测的⼈保持距离。

王小波

引导人们走向艺术和科学的最强烈动机之一，是逃离日常琐碎生活及其痛苦的粗鲁和绝望的沉闷，就像这些人将宇宙及其构建置于他们情感生活的枢纽中，以寻找他们在个人生活的狭窄漩涡中找不到的和平和安全。

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science， is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness， such men make this cosmos and its construction in the pivot of their emotional life， in ordered to find the peace and the security， which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

爱因斯坦

人生无常，每一次相聚都可能是最后一次啊！

龙应台

I'm drawn to a lovely quote by St. Augustine in "The City of God," where he says, "It's a sin to judge any man by his post." In modern English that would mean it's a sinto come to any view of who you should talk to, dependent on their business card. It's not the post that should count. According to St. Augustine, only God can really put everybody in their place; he's going to do that on the Day of Judgment, with angels and trumpets, and the skies will open. Insane idea, if you're a secularist person, like me. But something very valuable in that idea, nevertheless.

我很喜欢圣奥古斯丁在“上帝之城”里的一句话，他说“以社会地位评价人是一种罪”。用现在的口吻说，看一个人的名片来决定你是否要和他交谈是罪。对圣奥古斯丁来说，人的价值不在他的社会地位，只有神可以决定一个人的价值，他将在天使围绕、小号奏鸣，天空破开的世界末日给于最后审判，如果你是像我一样的世俗论者，这想法太疯狂了，但这想法有它的价值。