To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

  • -- Maimonides 迈蒙尼德

在完善的法律的全部目的中,有尽可能地放弃、贬低和抑制欲望。

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A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

一种欲望在心中升起。它立刻满足于另一个到来。在分离两种欲望的间隙里,一种完全平静的心境支配着我们的心灵。在这一刻,它从所有的思想、爱或恨中解脱出来。完全的和平同样统治着两个精神波之间。

It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.

很难确定这是世界抛弃了教会的过错,还是教会不知道如何与世界建立联系的过错。

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

在我被遗弃的历史上,我和其他人并没有什么不同。我们都已从地球上分离出来,彼此分离,也就是我们自己。

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

成功的首要原则是欲望——知道自己想要什么。欲望是你种下的种子。

No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.

没有人能在一月份下定决心后,在二月份就放弃了,从而在经济上保持健康。

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

种族仇恨不是人性;种族仇恨是对人性的抛弃。