Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life , all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world-the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
——By Ostrovsky [Russia]
人最宝贵的东西是生命。生命对每个人来讲只有一次。一个人的生命应该这样度过：当他回首往事时，不会因虚度年华而悔恨，也不会因碌碌无为而羞耻。在临死的时候，他能够说：我的整个生命和全部精力，都已献给了世界上最壮丽的事业——为人类的解放事业而斗争。
——〔俄〕奥斯特洛夫斯基
