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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

  • -- Blaise Pascal 巴斯卡

虚荣的科学。物理科学的知识不会因为我在苦难时期对道德的无知而安慰我，但道德知识将永远因为我对物理科学的无知而安慰我。

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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

道德必须在某种程度上与有意识的生物的幸福联系起来。如果我们在这个世界上有更多或更少有效的方法来寻求幸福和避免痛苦——显然有——那么道德问题就有正确和错误的答案。

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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

好人花了多少时间与魔鬼作斗争真是太好了。如果他们花同样的精力去爱他们的同胞，魔鬼就会死在他自己的无聊的道路上。

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To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

把一个既不能定义也不能设想的概念作为公共道德的标准，就等于打开了每一种暴政的大门。

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Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

虽然所有的痛苦本身都是邪恶的，但它们对我们是有益的，因为它们发现了我们的疾病，并帮助我们治愈。

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We women manage to do many things at the same time. Men, no. Men do one thing at a time.

我们女人可以同时做很多事情。男人,没有。男人一次只做一件事。

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Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

理想主义，唉，不能保护一个人免受无知，教条主义和愚蠢。

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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

力量是从长期受苦的心的深沉的沉默中产生的;不是在快乐。

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It is better conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance.

掩盖自己的知识胜于揭露自己的无知。

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