Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

  • -- Samuel Alexander 萨缪尔·亚力山大

因此,在欲望中,享受越被推迟,就越有幻想开始编织未来成果的对象形象,并给所期望的对象披上旨在激起冲动的特性。

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Success is sweet the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.

成功是甜蜜的,如果经过长期的拖延,通过多次的斗争和失败才获得成功,那就更甜蜜了。

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

美德不在于戒除恶习,而在于不渴求恶习。

All is not lost that is delayed.

耽搁的并不都是损失。