After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

  • -- Pierre Corneille 高乃依

赢得权杖后,很少有人会如此慷慨地蔑视统治的乐趣。

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Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

婚姻是你生活的一个整体反映:你如何对待别人,你如何争论,你在自己的思想中有多安全。你对自己的观点争论得有多激烈?你用什么样的蔑视来看待别人的观点?

One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book, but I almost never read it. It would be like sitting at their dinner table and opening a packet of sandwiches.

和朋友呆在一起的乐趣之一就是你可以浏览他们的书架。我总是带着一本书来,但我几乎从未读过它。这就像坐在餐桌前打开一包三明治。

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

那是形而上学,我亲爱的朋友。这是我的医生禁止的,我的胃受不了。

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

幸福就是在另一个城市拥有一个大家庭,一个充满爱、关怀和紧密联系的家庭。

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

人们醉心于工作,所以他们看不到自己的真实状态。

I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

我想我太善良、太慷慨了,而且是个圣人——如果你能相信的话!

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

我成为画家也许要归功于花儿。

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.

使快乐变得愉快会缩短它们。

Be just before you are generous.

慷慨之前先要公正。