Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

  • -- Blaise Pascal 巴斯卡

的确,满是缺点是一种罪恶;但是,满是幻想却不愿意去认识它们,这是更大的罪恶,因为这是一种自愿性幻想的进一步错误。

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You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

你不能一个人走。很多人都有过这种错觉,但没有一个人是真正独自行走的。人不是天生的那样。每个人都与他的人民、他们的历史、他们的文化和他们的价值观紧密相连。

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

同样值得提醒老师的是,纠正错误的过分严厉有时会使一个男孩打消努力的念头。

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

消除舞台客车上的缺陷也许能制造出一辆完美的舞台客车,但不太可能制造出第一辆汽车。

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

人们所做的坏事在他们死后依然存在;好人常与他们的尸骨葬在一起。

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

我们遇到的每个人都有一种视觉错觉。

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

邪恶需要受害者的认可。