We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

  • -- Daniel J. Boorstin 丹尼尔·J·布尔斯廷

我们的痛苦主要不是来自于我们的恶习或弱点,而是来自于我们的幻想。我们不是被现实所困扰,而是被我们放置在它们的位置上的那些形象所困扰。

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Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

我承认,孩子应该是无辜的;但当这个词被用于男性或女性时,它只是一个表示软弱的民事用语。

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

我不想因为我的弱点和我的野心之间存在的差距而沮丧。