Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

-- Robert South 罗伯特南方

愚蠢使人的欲望膨胀，却使人的能力下降。

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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

人们到国外去，对高山的高度、大海的巨浪、河流的长流、浩瀚的海洋的罗盘、星星的圆周运动感到惊奇，而他们自己却毫不惊奇地走过了。

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All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.

所有的人都憎恨不幸的人;我比万物更可怜，我怎能被人恨恶呢?然而，你，我的创造者，你所憎恨和唾弃的我，你的创造物，你与我之间的联系只能通过消灭我们中的一个而解除。

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Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

渴望超越理智的知识分子。

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