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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

  • -- René Descartes 任_笛卡尔

最伟大的思想既能成就最大的美德，也能成就最大的罪恶。

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I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.

很明显，我对戏剧很感兴趣，我认为一些管弦乐和室内乐作品不可避免地带有戏剧元素，这甚至可能暗示着某种不确定的戏剧情节，尽管当时我并没有这样想。

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The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

通往智慧和学习的大门永远是敞开的，我越来越多地选择从中走过。障碍、阻碍、障碍和问题是我个人的老师，给了我走出过去，进入全部可能性的机会。

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What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about "right" and "wrong," or "good" and "evil," and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?

如果我们不再担心“对”和“错”，或“善”和“恶”，而只是为了最大限度地增进我们自己和他人的福祉而行动，我们的世界会变成什么样子?我们会失去什么重要的东西吗?

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We must select the proper defense for a particular onslaught with the evil inclination with the same care and presence of mind that a painter exercises in selecting the precise color for a particular effect.

我们必须以画家在为特定效果选择精确的颜色时所表现出的同样的谨慎和沉着，为具有邪恶倾向的特定攻击选择适当的防御。

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But my message to people with or without a condition is the fact that you can still do anything you set your mind to. You just have to do it in a slightly different way than other people.

但我要告诉人们的是，无论有没有条件，你都可以做任何你下定决心要做的事情。你只需要用一种和其他人稍微不同的方式来做。

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The highest form of treason: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

叛国的最高形式:以错误的理由做正确的事。

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Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

明天不算什么，今天太迟了;好人活在昨天。

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It's hard to make a choice between two blind dogs.

很难在两只盲狗之间做出选择。

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The devil can quote Scripture for his own ends.

魔鬼可以为自己的目的引用圣经。

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I can resist everything except temptation.

除了诱惑，我什么都能抵抗。

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Of a good beginning cometh a good end.

好开端必有好结果。

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The difficulty in life is the choice.

人生的困难在于选择。

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