I have known many good people who did not believe in God. But I have never known a human being who was good who did not believe in people. [language slightly modified]

  • -- John Lovejoy Elliott 约翰·洛夫乔伊·埃利奥特

我认识许多不信上帝的好人。但我从未见过一个好人不相信人。(语言稍微修改)

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You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

你知道写作是怎么一回事。你想写什么就写什么。没有办法预测什么是好,什么是坏。你只要做你认为有趣的事,要么成功,要么完蛋。什么都不可能预测。

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

很少有国家穷到只有一个上帝。神是如此容易造出来的,原料成本又如此之低,以致神的市场一般都相当饱和,天堂里挤满了这些幽灵。

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

我们可以肯定的是,文艺复兴后期的主要趋势是从人文主义转向人文主义,这种人文主义倾向于自由的扩展到最高程度的学科和选择性。

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

至于诸神,我既不知道它们存在,也不知道它们不存在。

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

生活不在于握有一手好牌,而在于把手里的牌打好。

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

如果你的品行使你郁郁寡欢,那么毫无疑问,它们是错误的。