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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
中庸与智慧是分不开的伴侣,但天才与之连点头之交都没有。
— Charles Caleb Colton 英国作家科尔顿
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更多好句 ↗If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
如果动物做了什么,我们称之为本能;如果我们出于同样的原因做同样的事情,我们称之为智慧。
Will Cuppy
威尔·卡皮
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
一旦我们注定要在思想的牢笼中度过一生,我们的责任就是把它布置得井井有条。
Peter Ustinov
彼得·乌斯季诺夫
Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.
聪明人从傻瓜那里得到的好处比傻瓜从聪明人那里得到的好处要多。
Marcus Porcius Cato
马库斯·波修斯·卡托
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
大多数值得说的话都是老生常谈。让它们值得说的是,我们是认真的。
Robert Staughton Lynd
罗伯特·斯塔顿·林德
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
哲学的要点是从一些简单到不值得陈述的东西开始,以一些自相矛盾到没有人会相信的东西结束。
Bertrand Russell
罗素
As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
作为人类,我们确实会改变、成长、适应,甚至学习,变得更聪明。
Wendy Carlos
温迪·卡洛斯