【译文】 孔子说:“譬如堆山,还差一筐,没堆成就停了,功亏一篑是自己造成的;譬如填坑,只倒一筐,继续填下去,坚持不懈是自己决定的。”
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case, he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
人们早已忘记了这个道理。可是你不应将它遗忘。你必须永远对自己所驯服的东西负责。你要对你的玫瑰花负责。
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.