If I knew where I would meet my end, I would avoid it my entire life.
如果我知道我会在哪里死去，那我一辈子都不会去那里。
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."
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.
You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
