We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

我们获得了抵制诱惑的力量。

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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

任何经常重复的行为很快就会形成一种习惯;如果习惯得以养成,力量就会稳步增长。起初,它可能只是一张蜘蛛网,很容易被冲破,但如果不加以抵制,它很快就会把我们用铁链捆在一起。

It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

很明显,做一个好人比做一个坏人要难得多。看起来,这个世界从根本上来说是一个邪恶的地方。所以为了做一个好人,你必须与诱惑和罪恶作斗争。

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

如果人们在得到回报时感受到的爱的力量能像我们没有得到回报时感受到的爱一样强烈和执着,那就好了;那么,婚姻将真正在天堂里缔结。

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

为什么诱惑不让人遇见并控制它,使它伏在自己的脚下,从而获得胜利呢?

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

爱很简单,我喜欢写作。你无法抗拒爱。你有了一个想法,有人说了些什么,你恋爱了。

To create is to resist; to resist is to create.

创造就是反抗;抗拒就是创造。