In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

一般来说,自从烹饪技术进步以来,人类所吃的食物是大自然所需要的两倍。

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Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.

这些人既不贪食,也不酗酒,他们衣食无忧,一心一意保卫自己的国家,一心一意掠夺财物,他们把全部精力都用在照料马匹和家具上。

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

如果人们破坏了人类创造的可替换的东西,他们被称为破坏者;如果他们破坏了上帝创造的不可替代的东西,他们就被称为开发者。

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

肉体独自承受现在的风暴;过去的、未来的以及现在的思想。暴食是一种精神上的欲望。

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

但是,我认为,政治领导的本质是能够清楚地表达自己在做什么,并且能够坚持到底。

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

家庭是所有社会的托儿所;人类的第一次组合。

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

如果你想要很多东西,很多东西看起来就会很少。