Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

  • -- Epictetus 埃皮克特斯

获得自由不是通过充分享受所渴望的,而是通过控制欲望。

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I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

我认为我们正在努力重新定义历史上的各种立场。让女性自由,让男性自由,让他们摆脱那些被严格定义的性别角色。

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

我宁愿做一个梦想家,在最卑微的人中间,有愿景要实现,而不是主在那些没有梦想和欲望的人中间。

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

我一直有一种无法解决的渴望,想要证明我可以获得博士学位,或者为世界做点别的贡献。

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

自由是我们如何对待别人对我们做的事。