We speak of hardships, but the true hardship is to be a dull fool, and permitted to mismanage life in our own dull and foolish manner.
我们谈论种种艰难,可真正的艰难,是做一个迟钝的傻瓜,还任由自己以迟钝而愚蠢的方式把生活弄糟。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes · The Monks —