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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

  • -- Andreas Capellanus 卡佩拉努斯

即使整个大地和大海都变成金子，也无法满足一个女人的贪婪……用指甲刮钻石比用人类的聪明才智让一个女人同意捐出她的积蓄要容易得多。

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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

美是一种无私的东西，没有它，古老的世界就无法理解它自己，一个词，不知不觉却又明白无误地告别了我们的新世界，一个充满利益的世界，只留下它自己的贪婪和悲哀。

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If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

如果公司完全依赖于你——你的创造力、独创性、灵感、销售技巧或个人魅力——没有人会想买它。风险和依赖性都太大了。

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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

生活就是记忆，除了那一瞬间，你匆匆而过，几乎无法抓住它。

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A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

名言是聪明人手指上的钻石，愚人手中的鹅卵石。

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He's arguably the best there is. Against him, you've got to scratch and claw the best you can.

他可以说是最好的。面对他，你必须竭尽全力去抓。

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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

逻辑不能满足我们这一事实唤醒了我们对非理性近乎无止境的渴望。

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Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

同意和做这种事的人将受到同等的惩罚。

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Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

剥开悲观主义者的外衣，你会发现他们往往是特权的捍卫者。

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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

人类发明语言是为了满足内心深处的抱怨。

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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

野心不过是戴着面具的高跷上的贪婪。

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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

没有我的允许，任何人都不能伤害我。

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I hardly went to school.

我几乎没去上学。

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