One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

  • -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格

人们可能会把习惯称为道德摩擦:一种阻止思维掠过事物,但又将其与之联系起来,使其难以摆脱的东西。

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Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

常识是世界上分布得最均匀的东西,因为每个人都认为自己很有天赋,即使是那些在其他事情上最难满足的人,也没有比他们已经拥有的东西更渴望得到常识的习惯。

They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

他们保持着东西方人民之间的摩擦。我们都有一个共同点,那就是你的肤色,那就是黑人和拉丁美洲人,那就是我们的家庭。

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

坏习惯一旦养成,要想改掉就难了。

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

如果体裁有性别之分,小说无疑会是女性化的。

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

让我们讲道德。让我们思考存在。