Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

  • -- William Butler Yeats 叶芝

太久的牺牲会使人铁石心肠。

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There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.

有一个奇妙的神话般的自然法则,我们在生活中最渴望的三样东西——幸福、自由和内心的平静——总是通过给予别人而得到的。

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

如果人类本质上是邪恶的,那么谁还会费心去改善这个世界,而不是一开始就把它当作一份糟糕的工作而放弃呢?

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

善良,有了力量,就堕落了;没有力量的纯洁的爱会被摧毁。

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

善良不在于伟大,而在于伟大在于善良。