我以同樣的熱情追求知識，我想理解人類的心靈，我想了解星辰為何燦爛，我還試圖弄懂畢達哥拉斯學說的力量，是這種力量使我在無常之上高踞主宰地位。我在這方面略有成就，但不多。

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
愛情和知識只要存在，總是向上導往天堂。但是，憐憫又總是把我帶回人間。痛苦的呼喊在我心中反響回蕩，孩子們受饑荒煎熬，無辜者被壓迫者折磨，孤弱無助的老人在自己的兒子眼中變成可惡的累贅，以及世上觸目皆是的孤獨、貧困和痛苦－－這些都是對人類應該過的生活的嘲弄。我渴望能減少罪惡，可我做不到，于是我感到痛苦。
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
這就是我的一生。我覺得這一生是值得活的，如果真有可能再給我一次機會，我將欣然再重活-次。


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