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。
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse.
翻译:上下同心同德的军队,能够取胜。
When I stand before thee at the day's end thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
一个人的力量有时可能超过千百人的力量,君子之人不能没有这种戒心;我何必怕他,大丈夫不能没有这种志向。
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