There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

有一种提升并不取决于运气;这是一种使我们与众不同的气质,似乎注定了我们要成就大事;这是我们在不知不觉中给自己定的代价。

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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

美是一种无私的东西,没有它,古老的世界就无法理解它自己,一个词,不知不觉却又明白无误地告别了我们的新世界,一个充满利益的世界,只留下它自己的贪婪和悲哀。

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

所有的幸福或不幸都完全取决于我们所爱之物的性质。

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

同样,你也可以在不知不觉中从一套乐器过渡到另一套乐器。

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

历史是一套达成共识的谎言。