Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

  • -- Abraham Cowley 亚伯拉罕·考利

很少人能很好地利用独处。真正懂得世故的人,必能看出世故的愚昧,也有足够的德性去鄙视一切的虚荣心。

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It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

的确,人类自己创造了这个由民族组成的世界……但是,毫无疑问,这个世界产生于一种思想,这种思想往往是多样化的,有时是完全相反的,而且总是超越人们向自己提出的特定目标。

I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.

我想人们会对我们所做的感到惊讶。不幸的是,最初的创始人投下的阴影是,他们只是不能写书的艺术家,所以人们用画笔扫过整个形象。

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

我不喜欢食物摆放得太仔细;这让我觉得厨师花了太多的时间安排而没有足够的时间烹饪。如果我想要一幅画,我就买一幅画。

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

不要一次承受一种以上的麻烦。有些人承受着三种烦恼——他们曾经拥有的烦恼,他们拥有的烦恼,以及他们希望拥有的烦恼。

If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

如果不是因为政治世界发生了什么,我们就不会有这么多节目。

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

聪明的人才会愤世嫉俗,聪明的人才不会愤世嫉俗。