One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

  • -- Walter Bagehot 沃尔特·巴格霍特

人性最大的痛苦之一就是新思想的痛苦。

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No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

没有人愚蠢到没有足够的智慧有时成为一个无赖;也没有哪个无赖像他那样狡猾,有时连装傻的弱点都没有。

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

我们选择朋友就像选择情人一样——并不是因为他们本身有什么特别的优点,而仅仅是出于某种满足我们自爱的环境。

Men who loved you when you were twenty, and who continue to see you the way you looked then are impossible to replace.

那些在你二十岁时就爱上你,并且一直以你当时的样子看你的男人是无法替代的。

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

我宁可在知识上胜过别人,也不愿在能力和权柄上胜过别人。

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

环保主义者反对不计后果的创新,并将保护作为商业活动的中心秩序。

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

创新之所以会发生,是因为有很多人在做和尝试很多不同的事情。

Men are very fragile creatures. Their psyches are so closely tied to their epididymis.

人类是非常脆弱的生物。他们的心理与附睾紧密相连。

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

第一个动手的人承认他的主意已经行不通了。