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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

最后一个诱惑是最大的背叛:以错误的理由做正确的事。

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The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

改变我们传统角色的最大障碍似乎不在于有意识意图的可见世界，而在于无意识思维的模糊领域。

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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

在一个人热切追求的所有世俗事物中，他发现一半的快乐都来自于他在期待中向自己提出的占有。

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Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

秘密在男人之间设置了障碍，但同时也提供了通过流言蜚语或坦白来打破障碍的诱惑。

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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

宣传者的目的是让一群人忘记某些人是人。

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Everyone has a different purpose in the world, and everyone's world differs in accordance with his purpose.

每个人在世界上都有不同的目的，每个人的世界都因他的目的而不同。

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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

命运不过是在先前存在状态下所做的行为。

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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

每天，不，每时每刻，试着做一些好事。

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I think things happened the way they did for a reason.

我认为他们这样做是有原因的。

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Intuition is reason in a hurry.

直觉是匆忙的理智。

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