True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

  • -- Emanuel Swedenborg 史威登堡

真正的慈善是希望对他人有用而不考虑回报。

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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

我们被告知,人才创造自己的机会。但有时似乎强烈的欲望不仅创造了自己的机会,也创造了自己的才能。

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

科学的好处是不管你相信与否,它都是真的。

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

没有什么比温柔更坚强,也没有什么比真正的力量更温柔。

Do not ask me for charity now: Go away until your bones are clean.

现在不要求我施舍,你去吧,直到你的骨头乾净。

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

对美德的忠诚往往源于满足的欲望。

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

慈善造成许多罪恶。