The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

老百姓没有历史:受了现在的迫害，他们想不起保存过去的记忆。

-- Jean Henri Fabre 让-亨利·法布尔