They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

  • -- Pierre Corneille 高乃依

能一次克服欲望的人,就能永远克服欲望。

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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

如果心所赞同的符合适当的模式,那么即使一个人的欲望很多,它们对良好的秩序又有什么害处呢?

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

我必须克服岩石这个名字。如果我当时像现在这样时髦,我绝不会同意别人叫我洛克。

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

当危险被克服时,人们对危险的感觉也许从来没有像现在这样完全理解。

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

愤怒是我们思想的屈服,而不是欲望的屈服。