几日几句

有个朋友在MSN上有个一日一句。我没有那么好的耐性，也没有把握每天都能找到一些句子来分析。于是便来个几日几句吧。

最近思考了很多生与死的问题，就从这个话题开始吧。

 

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth — that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

— Socrates

但要真的做到cheer about death，不是说说那么简单。

 

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

— Isaac Asimov

所以我是快乐并麻烦着？这句话颇有Susan Calvin的口气。

 

The act of dying is also one of the acts of life.

— Marcus Aurelius

嗯，同意。

 

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

— Mark Twain

这是我见到过的，关于wrinkle的最美好的描述。

 

Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.

— William Shakespeare

这真是跨时空的理解和同情，谢谢你，Shakespeare.

 

Death — the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.

— Sir Walter Scott

是的，渐渐开始想明白一些关于生死的命题。

 

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

— Will Rogers

同意，但难以做到。

 

This above all: to thine own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.

— William Shakespeare

我把这些话同下面的话一并理解，但不知是否合适：

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

— Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky

 

最后，留下一句给自己：

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

— Henrik Ibsen