There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

过去从来没有,现在也不太可能很快就会出现一个哲学家的国家,我也不确定是否应该出现这样一个国家。

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What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling.

接吻对我来说到底意味着什么?对我来说,如果你感觉到,当你亲吻一个女孩的时候,那种海豚游过你血液的感觉,你的胃里有一种很好的刺痛感,我认为没有比这种感觉更好的了。

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

当一个人看到他想要的东西时,他必须思考这样一个事实:随着时间的推移,它可能涉及到可憎的东西。当他看到有益的事情时,他应该意识到迟早它也会带来危害。

Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

错误是最好的老师。人不能从成功中学到东西。从别人的失败中学习是可取的,但当别人的失败成为你自己的失败时,你会更加深刻地体会到这一点。

There are certain things I just don't talk about - there are certain things that are private.

有些事情我就是不谈——有些事情是私人的。