Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

  • -- Claude Levi-Strauss 斯特劳斯

我们的制度是荒谬至极的,因为我们既把罪犯当作孩子来对待,以便有权惩罚他,又把他当作成年人来拒绝给予他安慰。

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I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.

我不需要惩罚犯罪的人。罪是它自己的惩罚,从里面吞吃你。惩罚它不是我的本意;治愈它是我的快乐。

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

哲学的慰藉之一是,展示如何摒弃一个概念的好处并不取决于摒弃它。

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

但这是不行的,上帝一定会惩罚你偷窃和不忠。

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

聪明人就是从书中从生活的烦恼中得到安慰。