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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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

我所属的那些体面的圈子里,那个体面的圈子里的所有人,那个我不知道安全的价值的圈子,都在反对我,他们知道,一旦失去或抛弃安全,就没有什么机会来代替它了。

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

很长一段时间,我都不写音乐,因为我认为它会分散注意力,直到我意识到它实际上打开了我头脑中某个无意识的生产力宝库。

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

公正合理的谦虚不仅能使人能言善辩,而且能激发人的一切才能。

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

阻止我们完全沉溺于一种恶习的原因,往往是我们有好几种恶习。

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。

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

音乐是一种令人愉悦的和谐,是为了上帝的荣耀和灵魂的愉悦。

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

种族仇恨不是人性;种族仇恨是对人性的抛弃。

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。

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

我心目中的“令人愉快的人”是指与我意见一致的人。

Though the proverb is abandoned, it is not falsified.

虽然这句谚语被抛弃了,但它并没有被篡改。

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

雄辩是思想的绘画。