If I'm a Klee lover and you're a Kandinsky lover, I don't think you quite deserve as much as me.
如果我是克利派,你是康定斯基派,我会觉得你样样不如我。
This is what Pericles boasts to his listeners in the famous funeral oration told by Thucydides.
这是伯里克利斯在那场著名葬礼中,向其听众夸耀的悼词,由修西地底斯记录下来。
They thought the Klee lovers tended to be smarter than the Kandinsky lovers and the Klee lovers would devote more resources to themselves than to others.
他们认为克利派的人,比康定斯基派的更聪明,而且他们,会更乐意帮助自己群体内的人。
And you see this, going back to Socrates, there's a dialogue, the Gorgias, in which one of Socrates' friends, Callicles, tries to talk him out of philosophizing.
追溯到苏格拉底时代,就有这样一段对话,在《高尔吉亚篇》中,苏格拉底的一位朋友,卡里克利斯,试图说服苏格拉底放弃哲学思考。
I would also add the names of Pericles Lincoln and Churchill.
我还要加一些名字,像是伯里克利斯,林肯,丘吉尔。
It had established Athens as a mighty and redoubtable naval power and it created an unprecedented level of artistic and cultural life even today known simply as Periclean Athens.
建立了雅典强大且令人敬畏的海军强权,而且催生了史无前例的,璀璨艺术与文化生活,甚至今日仍以伯里克利斯的雅典闻名。
Take my advice," Callicles says, "abandon argument.
听我劝吧,卡里克利斯说,收起你的辩论。
And Callicles did have a point.
卡里克利斯说得确有道理。
We throw our city open to the world and never exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning and observing even though the eyes of an enemy may profit from our liberality " Pericles boasts once again.
我们的城邦向世界敞开大门,且从不排除让外国人,向我们学习及观摩的机会,就算敌人可能因此,从我们的慷慨中受益“,伯里克利斯再次自夸。
No one is above suspicion. Socrates himself had been a close associate of a man named Alcibiades probably the most prominent Athenian in the generation after Pericles.
没有人是绝对清白的,苏格拉底自己的密友之一,就是Alcibiades,他或许是,贝里克利斯之后的年代里最著名的雅典人。
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