Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

许多人以为他是在买快乐,其实他是在把自己卖给快乐。

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Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

常识是世界上分布得最均匀的东西,因为每个人都认为自己很有天赋,即使是那些在其他事情上最难满足的人,也没有比他们已经拥有的东西更渴望得到常识的习惯。

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

从一开始,学生就应该开始见证疾病的进展和影响,并在整个学习期间坚持每天观察疾病。

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

你编了一个故事,然后把它翻出来,对我来说,这是最激动人心的故事。观众认为这将是关于某件事,它做了相反的事情。

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.

这个声音会指引你,告诉你该怎么做。为了做到这一点,你必须对乐器非常敏感,并且用你的声音接受这种日常对话。

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

悠闲的生活和懒惰的生活是两回事。坟墓里会有足够的睡眠。

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

自由意志是一种幻觉。人们总是选择感知到的最大快乐的道路。

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment pain of love lasts, a lifetime.

爱情带来的快乐只能持续片刻,而爱情带来的痛苦却能持续一生。

We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band.

我们不是一个政治乐队,我们是一个有社会意识的乐队。