It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

  • -- Diogenes 第欧根尼

什么都不缺是上帝的特权,像上帝一样的人什么都不缺是上帝的特权。

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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

正直是走向真正伟大的第一步。男人喜欢赞美,但付诸行动却很慢。要想在高位维持这种局面,需要自我否定;在任何地方,它都可能遭到反对,但它的结局是光荣的,宇宙仍将向它致敬。

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

当人们不再相信上帝时,并不是他们什么都不相信,而是他们相信一切。

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

一旦我们习惯了,真理很快就不再比小说更离奇了。

Plato was a bore.

柏拉图是个讨厌鬼。