促使人们倾向于和平的激情是对死亡的恐惧,对舒适生活必需品的渴望,以及通过自己的努力获得这些的希望。
The passions that incline men to peace are fear of death, desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living, and a hope by their industry to obtain them.
"Science is the art of understanding the universe's language."
"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."
还有一些其他的理由,使得我们更难获得平静。这有些矛盾,因为拥有自己的事业,是一件不错的事,但同时,人们也从未对自己的短暂一生有过这么高的期待。
"Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be expelled."
The past is never dead. It's not even past.