sure there are differences. We see that our manuscripts are not exactly like those fragments, but there is a remarkable degree, a high degree of correspondence so that we really can speak of a relatively stable textual tradition but still some fluidity.

当然其中会有差异，我们手中的这些原稿,一定和那些片段有细微差异，但在很大的程度上,我们能说是和那文本传统大致相符的,但还是存在一些差异。

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Most of us don't know enough to know with a high degree of accuracy how things would have gone had I decided to become a farmer instead of a philosopher.

多数人了解得都不够,无法更确切地知道,如果我成为农夫而非哲学家,到底会有怎样的人生。

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