Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

  • -- Francois Mauriac 莫里亚克

告诉我你读了什么,我会告诉你你是谁,这是千真万确的,但如果你告诉我你重读了什么,我会更了解你。

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It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

监管一切是糟糕的政策……在那里,事情可以更好地自我调节,通过私人努力可以得到更好的促进;但是,不去管那些只能通过干预社会权力来推动的事情,同样是糟糕的政策。

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

我有一百万个熟人,但只有两三个真正的朋友。我不能对他们隐瞒任何事情。

Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady.

你的衣服应该足够紧,以显示你是一个女人,但宽松,以显示你是一个淑女。

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

我们不饿……为什么把这种食物强加给我们?我们不想窒息。我们有足够的。

It’s true, I can’t make you love me. But I can refuse to let you out of your cage.

这是真的,我不能让你爱我。但我可以拒绝让你出你的笼子。

My goal not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be.

我的目标不是要比任何人都好,而是要比我过去更好。