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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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。

How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

你对生活中真正真实和重要的事情投入了多少?这是个人问题。

I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early.

我很高兴成为一名演员,这是我一直想做的。我很幸运我这么早就做了。

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

我从不质疑该做什么,它告诉我该做什么。这些照片是在我的帮助下完成的。

Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.

规则很重要,但它们是暂时的,总是应该被改变的。

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

自满是一种快乐,伴随而来的是把自己当作原因的想法。

Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no.

剧院会消失吗?不。这是健康的吗?也没有。

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

拥有一个快乐的童年永远不会太迟。

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

描述快乐往往会破坏快乐。

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

没有温柔,男人就无趣。

A bad tree does not yield good apples.

坏树结不出好苹果。

Man is what he believes.

人是他所相信的。