Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

  • -- Blaise Pascal 巴斯卡

连续的口才的疲倦。要欣赏伟大,就必须抛弃它。任何事情的连续性都是令人不快的。冷是适宜的,这样我们就可以暖和起来。

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For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.

有一种啤酒,不掺水的时候味道很浓,但喝惯了的人都喜欢喝。他们看见大麦浮在其上,就拿著苇子,从盛酒的器皿里拿出来喝。

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

请给我们一个机会,让我们向你们展示,那些所谓的旨在帮助妇女的保护性法律——无论初衷多么美好——实际上已成为限制,使妻子、被遗弃的妻子和寡妇都无法养家糊口。

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

慷慨不过是一种占有欲。我放弃的所有东西,我给予的所有东西,我都以一种更高的方式享受,因为我把它给了别人。施予是对施予对象的占有。

I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

我从来没有像现在这样珍惜和朋友在一起的安静时刻,和书在一起的安静时刻,我想部分原因是我对变老和时间过得更快的痴迷,这对我来说变得越来越甜蜜。

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

一个博学的人有两种幸福的来源:要么他放弃一切世俗的兴趣,要么他拥有许多可以放弃的东西。

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

最难解释的事情是大家都决定不去看的明摆着的事实。

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

把事情拖到别人知道后再做,似乎是一种令人不快的高雅行为。

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

有礼貌的人受到赞赏,而没有礼貌的人则受到憎恶。

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

只有符合理性的东西才是神圣的。

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

这是一场极具说服力的辩论。

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

雄辩是思想的绘画。