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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

  • -- Chanakya 考底利耶

没有一种紧缩等于平衡的思想，也没有一种幸福等于满足;没有一种疾病比得上贪婪，也没有一种美德比得上仁慈。

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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

大多数人的消费欲望是故意把他们的整个生命种植在别人的手中。我认为这种寻找幸福的方法是不成熟的。性格的发展完全在于走向自给自足。

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So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

所以我们努力在我们能控制的领域追求完美，而这并不一定能给我们自己，更重要的是，给我们的孩子带来满足和快乐。

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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

一个人开始相信他经常对自己重复的任何事情，不管这个陈述是对是错。它在一个人的头脑中占主导地位。

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

真正的满足和农业一样活跃。它是一种力量，可以使你摆脱任何困境。这是艰巨的，也是罕见的。

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I've always been a firm believer in mind over matter. If you don't believe you can achieve, your body will start to believe this and you'll be stuck.

我一直坚信精神高于物质。如果你不相信自己能做到，你的身体就会开始相信这一点，你就会停滞不前。

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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

依赖带来顺从和腐败，扼杀美德的萌芽，为野心的设计准备合适的工具。

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Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.

别怪我。这是进化。进化总是困难的。努力,暗淡。没有快乐的进化。

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

总的来说，人类想要变好，但不是太好，也不是一直都很好。

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