"From dust we have come, to dust we shall return. In no way would this diminish all those very important human dimensions to the experience of death.

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And so I said that the nations of the world will never cease from trouble until either the true breed of philosophers shall come to political office or until that of the rulers shall, by some divine law, " take the pursuit of philosophy."

所以我说,世界上的国家和种族永远不会停止纷争,直到正牌的哲学家,接管政权,或直到统治者都受某种神圣法律所辖，开始追求哲学“

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Come, therefore, I will send you to Pharaoh, ] and you shall free my people, the Israelites, from Egypt."

故此，我要打发你去见法老，使你可以将我的百姓以色列人从埃及领出来“

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But your food shall be the grasses of the field; By the sweat of your brow Shall you get bread to eat" So knowledge or wisdom or perhaps moral freedom seem to come at a very high price.

你也要吃田间的菜蔬;,你必须汗流满面,才得以糊口“,所以，人类为得到智慧，道德自由,付出了极大的代价。

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