Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

  • -- Reinhold Niebuhr 莱茵霍尔德·尼布赫

原罪是关于人的一件事,它使人能够设想自己的完美,却不能实现它。

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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

爱的开始是让我们所爱的人成为完美的自己,而不是扭曲他们以符合我们自己的形象。否则,我们只爱自己在他们身上的反映。

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

你思考的能力是想象力;没有它,就没有理解,甚至没有虚构。

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

我怎样才能在失去罪恶的同时保持理智,又爱冒犯者,又厌恶冒犯者呢?

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

直到分离的时候,爱才知道它有多深。

It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.

现在还不晚。你只是还不知道自己能做什么。

If you never try, you'll never know what you are capable of.

如果你从不尝试,你就永远不知道自己能做什么。

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

不要相信别人。他们有能力成为伟人。

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

无知不是纯真,而是罪恶。