The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

重要的问题不是,什么能使人获得一些分散的快乐,而是什么能使他的生活总体上幸福。

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I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

我很幸运地遇到这样的情况,问题不在于我为什么要这么做?我的问题总是,为什么没有其他人在我之前做过?这些就是我绞尽脑汁想要解决的问题。

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

这就是莎士比亚的形式;谁走在人生的每一条道路上,感受着每一份激情;对于全人类来说,只有他自己的天才才能获得的经验,现在才会有,将来也永远会有。

It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.

这是一个选择什么对你来说是最重要的,并把它放在首位的问题。一旦你认识到你生活的真正目的,这就变得容易多了。

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

自由只属于那些不再要求生活给他们带来任何受时间变化影响的个人财富的人。

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

社会被男人编纂成法典,规定女人低人一等;只有摧毁男性的优势,她才能消除这种劣势。

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

也许最大的阅读乐趣有自我毁灭的成分。如此全神贯注以至于你几乎不知道自己的存在。

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

但是你可以做一个好的广播,有趣的广播,甚至是很棒的广播,没有一个紧迫的问题,一个迫在眉睫的问题。

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

当我一无所有的时候,我享受我的生活……有点喜欢和我在一起很开心的想法。

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

好的风格不应该表现出努力的迹象。所写的应该是一个愉快的意外。

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.

因为人本质上是孤独的,我们应该同情他,爱他,和他一起悲伤。

If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse.

如果这对你很重要,你会找到方法的。如果没有,你会找到一个借口。

We are all pleasure-seekers. We differ only in the type of pleasure we seek.

我们都是寻欢作乐的人。我们只是在寻求快乐的类型上有所不同。