I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.

  • -- Rebecca West 丽贝卡·韦斯特

我认为,当前社会混乱的一个主要原因是,用快乐来衡量价值太病态、太可疑了。

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Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

我们的命运掌握在全能的上帝手中,我可以愉快地把我的命运托付给他;他可以拯救我们,也可以毁灭我们;他的计划是固定的,不会让人失望的,他的一切计划都会实现的。

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

我们从对现在的描绘中获得的快乐,不仅是因为它可以披上美丽的外衣,还因为它是现在的本质。