Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

  • -- Christoph Martin Wieland 克里斯多夫·马丁·维兰德

短暂的快乐往往是长期痛苦的根源。

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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

爱在于付出而不求回报;给予别人不欠别人的,别人也不欠你的。这就是为什么真爱从来就不是建立在公平交换的基础上的,就像功利或快乐的联想一样。

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

除了自得其乐之外,另一种最大的乐趣在于阻止别人自得其乐,或者更广泛地说,是阻止别人获得权力。

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

只要人们愿意接受垃圾,把垃圾丢掉在经济上就是有利可图的。

Long absent, soon forgotten.

久别即忘。