It's better to have been born than never to-- even though that's followed by death-- than never to have been born at all.

出生还是好于永远不-,就算生后即是死-,还是好于永远都不出生。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

You shrug them off as unimportant, ? they give you heartburn, ? they are meaningless, they are critical, what do you do with that?

对此不屑一顾呢，还是心生忌妒，它们毫无意义呢，还是说有重要参考价值，分析一下看看？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Politics, for him, is less a matter of prudential decisions of better and worse, than it is, you might say, an existential decision of choosing life or death.

对他来说，政治，不是关于谨慎的决定,不管是好还是坏，不如说是，一个选择生或死的必然决定。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选