If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

如果快乐之后没有痛苦,谁又能忍受呢?

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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

没有痛苦就没有超脱。没有仇恨,没有谎言,就没有痛苦。

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

饮水者所作的诗,没有一句能长久,也不能长久。

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

真正的艺术家几乎是唯一以工作为乐的人。

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

上帝是一个用来衡量我们痛苦的概念。