To be, or not to be, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, and by opposing end them: to die, to sleep. No more;
生存还是毁灭，这是一个值得考虑的问题。默然忍受命运的暴虐的毒箭，或是挺身反抗人世的无涯的苦难，通过斗争把他们扫清，这两种行为，哪一种更高贵？死了，睡着了，什么都完了；
- William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. Act III, Scene I
“我们应当努力去探寻究竟的，并非我们是怎样的人，而是我们拒绝成为怎样的人。”
- 米歇尔福柯（Michael Foucault)
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
那是最美好的时代，那是最糟糕的时代；那是智慧的时代，那是愚蠢的时代，那是信仰的时代，那是怀疑的时代，那是光明的季节，那是黑暗的季节；那是希望的春天，那是绝望的冬天，我们拥有一切，我们一无所有，我们直接上天堂，我们直接下地狱——简言之，那个时代跟现代十分相似，甚至当年有些大发议论的权威人士都坚持认为，无论说那一时代好也罢，坏也罢，只有用最高比较级，才能接受。
狄更斯 - 双城记
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