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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

不把一件事想错的长期习惯使它表面上看起来是对的。

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Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us. Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that knowledge ethically, to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people.

理性引导我们试图了解周围的世界。理性和同情心都引导我们努力将知识运用到道德上，去理解他人，并与他人建立道德关系。

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Everything in life happens for a good reason. It teaches you something. Treat every mistake you made as a lesson to make you a better person.

生活中发生的每件事都有好的理由。它教会你一些东西。把你犯的每一个错误都当作一个教训，让你成为一个更好的人。

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Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

爱生长。欲望因享受而浪费，原因是，一个来自灵魂的结合，另一个来自感觉的结合。

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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

金钱是万恶之源，但它是如此有用的根，没有它我们无法生存，就像没有土豆一样。

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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

我想写一个小前言，说历史毕竟是建立在人们的回忆之上的，而这些回忆是随着时间而变化的。

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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

你不能让自己感觉一些你感觉不到的东西，但你可以让自己做正确的事，不管你的感觉如何。

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I can see it in my mind, I can see it in their eyes. It's close enough to touch it now, but far away enough to die.

我能在我的脑海里看到，我能在他们的眼睛里看到。它现在离它很近，可以触摸到它，但离它很远，足以让它死去。

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But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

但是，对于道德家来说，罪恶是什么;对于法学家来说，犯罪是什么;对于科学家来说，无知也是什么。

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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

世界是一个不断变化的世界，自然界是无常的。

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Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so.

只有在无知本身的情况下，无知的错误才是可以原谅的。

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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

肤浅的人认为引力太大。

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Small evils hatch quick.

小恶魔孵化快。

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