Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

  • -- Blaise Pascal 巴斯卡

诚挚是理智所调和的热情。

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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

要像太阳或大海一样仁慈,但是如果你作为一个理性存在的权利被牢牢地钉住,那就死在你领土的第一寸土地上。

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

官场的傲慢应该得到缓和和控制,对外国人的援助应该减少,以免罗马陷落。

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

我去探险的原因和房地产经纪人卖房子的原因是一样的——付账单。

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.

承诺自己的生活是一场革命,而不仅仅是一个进化的过程。

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

你们要切慕死,就必得生。