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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

  • -- Marcus Tullius Cicero 西塞罗

聪明人受理智的指导，平庸的人受经验的指导，愚蠢的人受需要的指导，野蛮的人受本能的指导。

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Being truthful is a necessity because when I'm not being truthful it takes a toll on me. I don't have any room for it in my life. I don't have an across-the-board opinion on honesty in relationships. But for me, personally, it's paramount.

诚实是必要的，因为当我不诚实的时候，我就会付出代价。在我的生活中没有任何空间。我对人际关系中的诚实没有一个全面的看法。但对我个人来说，这是最重要的。

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What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.

除了那些唯一行使理智的人，即教士们的贪婪之外，还有什么能使教会获得如此巨大的财产呢?一个人为了摆脱炼狱的黑暗折磨，献出了他易腐烂的物质。

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A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

我思考的关键一直是近乎狂热地相信我所从事的是一种文学艺术形式。我想，这种信念是自我和必然性的结合。

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Reasoning is a robust source of hope in a world darkened by murky deeds.

在这个被黑暗行为笼罩的世界里，理性是希望的强大源泉。

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