A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

  • -- Xunzi 荀子

一个人生来就有眼睛和耳朵的欲望,喜欢美丽的风景和声音。如果他给他们让路,他们将导致他的不道德和缺乏约束,任何仪式的原则和礼仪将被抛弃。

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The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.

在西方,占据着这个国家的部落非常繁荣,这鼓励了他们早期文明的希望。在很大程度上,他们放弃了狩猎的状态,把注意力转向了农业。

Well-founded fear, which takes one through the valley of the shadow of death without abandoning one there, is what makes the worst of worse journeys; the situation is made all the more intense when the fear is somehow mingled with delight.

有充分根据的恐惧,它带你穿过死亡阴影的山谷而不把你抛弃在那里,这是最糟糕的旅程中最糟糕的部分;当恐惧与喜悦交织在一起时,情况就更加紧张了。

It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.

很难确定这是世界抛弃了教会的过错,还是教会不知道如何与世界建立联系的过错。

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

放弃自己的原则是真正的死亡-和为一个不可能的爱而死,这是爱的对立面。

Love me without restriction, trust me without fear, want me without demand, accept me for who I am.

无条件地爱我,无所畏惧地信任我,无所求地需要我,接受真实的我。

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

唯一不道德的事,不是在不得已的时候去做必须做的事。

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

不道德:那些过得更好的人的道德。