How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

  • -- Albert Camus 阿尔伯特·加缪

真诚怎么会是友谊的条件呢?不惜一切代价追求真理是一种不惜一切代价的激情。

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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.

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。

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

对于那些拥有一些资本,打算移民以改善其生活条件的人来说,主要考虑的是在他们未来居住的土地上可能找到社会。

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

当爱生了病,我们能做的最好的事情就是把它暴死;我不能忍受一种挥之不去的消费激情的折磨。

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

每一个真正的哲学家(事实上,每一个真正的人)最渴望的是赞美,尽管哲学家们通常称之为认可!

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

对一个哲学家来说,所有的新闻,就像人们所说的,都是流言蜚语,编辑和阅读这些新闻的人都是喝茶的老妇人。

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

当时诗歌的第一个问题就是诚实,真诚。

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.

当一个人一遍又一遍地重复一个承诺时,他的意思是让你失望。

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

读书不思考,犹如吃饭不消化。