To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.

  • -- Charles Buxton 查尔斯·巴克斯顿

使快乐变得愉快会缩短它们。

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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

伤口被刮伤是一种乐趣,但没有伤口更令人愉快。就是这样,在世俗的欲望中也有快乐,但是没有欲望更令人愉快。

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

在这个日夜竭尽全力把你变成别人的世界上,除了你自己,谁也不是,这意味着要打一场任何人都能打的最艰苦的战斗;永远不要停止战斗。

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

让疼痛麻木一段时间,当你最终感觉到它的时候,它会变得更糟。

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

胸怀大志,享受小乐趣。