Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

  • -- Sophocles 索福克勒斯

人不应该向任何东西发誓;因为反思会使他们的决心成为谎言。

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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

人最难管制的莫过于自己的舌头,最能克制自己的欲望的莫过于自己的言语。

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

回忆和反思是多么的紧密相连。是什么把感觉和思想分隔开来的?

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

当人们在他们的环境中变得容易时,他们自然是创新的敌人。

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

没有深刻的反思,一个人从日常生活中知道自己是为别人而存在的。