When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

  • -- Xunzi 荀子

当一个人看到他想要的东西时,他必须思考这样一个事实:随着时间的推移,它可能涉及到可憎的东西。当他看到有益的事情时,他应该意识到迟早它也会带来危害。

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Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

错误是最好的老师。人不能从成功中学到东西。从别人的失败中学习是可取的,但当别人的失败成为你自己的失败时,你会更加深刻地体会到这一点。

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

轻信对一个人所造成的危害并不局限于培养别人轻信的性格,从而支持错误的信念。

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

战争的自然原则是:以最小的伤害自己,最大的伤害敌人;这当然要靠策略来实现。

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

当你发现自己的优点时,要坚定地赞同它。当你发现自己有邪恶时,把它当作可憎的东西来鄙视。

In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.

事后看来,离开足球的那段时间会让你渴望回到最基本的东西上来踢球。

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

许多忧郁已降临到人类身上,我憎恶强权终将胜利。

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

一个人迟早会发现他是自己灵魂的园艺师,是自己生命的导演。

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

战争是残酷的。试图改革它是没有用的。它越残酷,就会越快结束。

I find love from time to time.

我时常能找到爱。