Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

  • -- Paul Valery 保尔·瓦雷里

人最大的不幸是,他没有器官,没有眼睑,没有刹车,无法在他想要的时候掩盖或阻止一个想法,或所有的想法。

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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

没有什么比触摸未知更让人恐惧的了。他想要看到向他伸出的是什么,并且能够识别或至少对它进行分类。男人总是倾向于避免身体接触任何奇怪的东西。

Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

像看待成功一样看待不幸——不要惊慌!做最好的自己,忘记后果。

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

但是,从另一个人的角度去看待幸福是一件多么痛苦的事情啊!

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

母亲是男人的不幸,妻子是他的过错。