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从前，有一位很有名的哲学家，迷倒了不少女孩子。
有一天，一个姑娘来敲他的门说：“让我做你的妻子吧！错过我，你就找不到比我更爱你的女人了！”
哲学家虽然很喜欢她，但仍然回答说：“让我考虑考虑。”然后，哲学家用他研究哲学问题的精神，把结婚和不结婚的好处与坏处分别列了出来。他发现，这个问题有些复杂，好处和坏处差不多一样多，真不知道该怎么决定。
最后，他终于得出一个结论：人如果在选择面前无法做决定的话，应该选择没有经历过的那一个。
哲学家去找那个姑娘，对她的父亲说：“您的女儿呢？我考虑清楚了，我决定娶她！”
但是，他被姑娘的父亲挡在了门外。他得到的回答是：“你来晚了十年，我女儿现在已经是三个孩子的妈妈了！”哲学家几乎不能相信自己的耳朵，他非常难过。
两年后，他得了重病。临死前，他把自己所有的书都扔进火里，只留下一句话：“如果把人生分成两半，前半段的人生哲学是‘不犹豫’，后半段的人生哲学是‘不后悔’。”
（选自《文萃》）
Long ago, there was a very famous philosopher who fascinated many young women.
One day, a young woman came and knocked on his door, saying, “Let me be your wife! If you miss your chance with me, you will never find another woman who loves you more than I do!”
Although the philosopher liked her very much, he still replied, “Let me think about it.” Then, with the same spirit he used to study philosophical questions, he listed out the advantages and disadvantages of getting married and not getting married. He discovered that the matter was rather complicated: the advantages and disadvantages were almost equally numerous, and he truly did not know how to decide.
Finally, he came to a conclusion: when a person cannot make a decision in the face of a choice, they should choose the option they have not yet experienced.
The philosopher went to find the young woman and said to her father, “Where is your daughter? I have thought it through. I’ve decided to marry her!”
But he was stopped outside the door by the woman’s father. The answer he received was: “You are ten years too late. My daughter is now already the mother of three children!” The philosopher could hardly believe his ears, and he was extremely sad.
Two years later, he became seriously ill. Before he died, he threw all his books into the fire, leaving behind only one sentence: “If life is divided into two halves, the philosophy of the first half of life is ‘do not hesitate,’ and the philosophy of the second half of life is ‘do not regret.’”
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