The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

  • -- Thomas Robert Malthus 马尔萨斯

如果不产生痛苦或罪恶,就不能制止人口的优越力量。

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When the headache persisted, I checked myself into an emergency room. When the doctor used the term 'brain tumour', I feared the worst. My whole world shrank around me.

头痛持续时,我住进了急诊室。当医生用“脑瘤”这个词时,我担心的是最坏的情况。我的整个世界都缩小了。

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

当一个孩子在其早期的愚行中被纵容或制止时,一般就为将来的人的幸福或痛苦奠定了基础。

I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.

我不想说工作就是我,但有些人在生产和创造的时候会觉得更有中心,更完整。

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

正像我们无权只享受财富而不创造财富一样,我们也无权只享受幸福而不创造幸福。

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

八月,夏季最后一个不幸的信使,是一个空洞的演员。

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

上级责备自己。下等人责怪别人。

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

我遇到的每个人在某种程度上都是我的上司。

There is winning and there is misery.

有胜利,也有痛苦。