The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

所有生物中最强烈的欲望是欲望和饥饿;第一种是不断地呼唤他们繁衍自己的同类,而后者则是保护自己。

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Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

爱生长。欲望因享受而浪费,原因是,一个来自灵魂的结合,另一个来自感觉的结合。

We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

我们不能真正消化食物,除非有饥饿。所以我们不能真正吸收精神智慧,除非我们觉得有必要。

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

今天,任何一个下班回来,坐在椅子上,拿起烟斗的人,都是一个喜欢冒险的人。

I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

我有巨大的欲望去看我所知道的呈现在我眼前的生活。

An empty bag cannot stand upright.

空袋子立不直。