Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

  • -- Alexis de Tocqueville 托克维尔

考虑任何一个人在他生命中的任何时期,你会发现他总是全神贯注于新的计划来增加他的舒适感。

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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

永远不要让二分法支配你的生活,不要让二分法让你讨厌你所做的事情,这样你就可以在业余时间享受快乐。找一个你的工作能给你和你的业余时间一样多的快乐的环境。

The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.

代笔作家或艺术家的麻烦在于,你必须保持相当匿名,没有信用。如果你想要荣誉,你必须停止做一个幽灵,成为一个领导者或创新者。

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

就他们的事业、活动或道德而言,大多数人已不再是个人。它们不是单位,而是分数。

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

当你遇到麻烦时,寻求同情的人是在寻找细节。