Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

每个人的富有或贫穷取决于他的欲望和他的快乐之间的比例。

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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

勇敢地去做伟大的事情,去赢得光荣的胜利,即使会受到失败的挫折……而不是与那些既不享受也不太受苦的可怜的人为伍,因为他们生活在一个既不知道胜利也不知道失败的灰暗的黎明里。

Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?

你知道一个男人热烈地恋爱是什么滋味吗?为一个女人的微笑和笑声而活,渴望她的抚摸,直到生命本身似乎不可能没有它,像你渴望呼吸一样渴望她?

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

慈善把富人和穷人分开;援助提高了穷人的生活水平,使他们与富人平起平坐。

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

专家就是对越来越少的东西知道得越来越多的人。