泣いたことがない若者は野蛮人であり、笑おうとしない老人は愚者である。

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English Translation

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

Furigana

泣(な)いたことがない若者(わかもの)は野蛮人(やばんじん)であり、笑(わら)おうとしない老人(ろうじん)は愚者(ぐしゃ)である。

Romanji

Naita koto ga nai wakamono wa yabanjin de ari, waraou to shinai rōjin wa gusha de aru.

Words

泣く (なく)

to cry; to weep; to sob; to howl

事 (こと、こん)

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

無い (ない)

nonexistent; not being (there); unpossessed; unowned; not had; unique; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility; not ...; to not be...; to have not ...

若者 (わかもの)

young man; young woman; young people; youth; youngsters

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

野蛮人 (やばんじん)

barbarian; savage

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative

或 (ある)

a certain ...; some ...

笑う (わらう)

to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted

と (と)

if; when; and; with; particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); quoting particle; promoted pawn; indicates question (sentence end)

為る (する)

to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to

老人 (ろうじん)

the aged; old person

愚者 (ぐしゃ)

fool; nitwit; The Fool (Tarot card)