On entering a country, ask what is forbidden, on entering a village, ask what are the customs, on entering a private house, ask what should not be mentioned.

进入一个国家,问什么是禁止的,进入一个村庄,问什么是风俗习惯,进入一个私人住宅,问什么是不应该提到的。

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

婚姻使人与风俗和传统产生了致命的联系,风俗和传统就像风和天气一样,不可估量。

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

你以为你进入了极乐的乐园,就不会经历前人所经历的那些试炼吗?

Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.

在居住在这个星球上的数百万人当中,他是我永远无法拥有的极少数人之一。

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

好的艺术是允许你从不同的角度进入它,并以不同的观点出现的艺术。

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

就像憎恨一样,嫉妒是被生活的法则所禁止的,因为它本质上是破坏性的。

Custom reconciles us to everything.

习惯使我们适应一切。