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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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

一个杰出的人想要逃避责难是愚蠢的,而受责难的影响是软弱的表现。古代所有的杰出人物,甚至世界上各个时代的人,都经历过这种激烈的迫害。

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

脾气的反复无常和自我矛盾是人性最大的弱点。