Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

  • -- Ralph W. Sockman 拉尔夫·W·索克曼

好习惯能自动控制我们较低的激情和欲望,让我们的天性自由地探索生活中更大的经历。我们中有太多的人在辩论应该被视为理所当然的行动时分裂和浪费了我们的精力。

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There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

说社会上的某一部分人也许完全有能力保护其他人的人身和财产,但又完全不适合指导我们的意见,或监督我们的私人习惯,这当然并不矛盾。

I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.

无论我读到的是好是坏,我都或多或少地认识了自己,如果你足够诚实的话,这就是作为一个人的一部分。很明显,黑暗的部分是你无法控制自己的。

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.

人类的头脑从自然现象中提取它自己赋予它们的规律是一回事;要从中提取出自己无法控制的法律,可能要困难得多。

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

我认为看喜剧会让你养成坏习惯……这就像走钢丝,要忠于角色,忠于讽刺,让讽刺发生。

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

如果你有一个伟大的激情,似乎合乎逻辑的事情是看到它的果实,而果实是孩子。

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

没有什么比百万富翁容忍他们的财富的缺点的坚韧更令人钦佩的了。

It is better to be beautiful than good, but it is better to be good than ugly.

美丽总比善良好,但善良总比丑陋好。

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

人们生活在幽默和激情的支配下,有时是理性的。