The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

  • -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格

希腊人拥有一种人性的知识,如果不经历一种新野蛮主义的强化冬眠,我们似乎很难达到这种知识。

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There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

人性中有很多美好的东西,人们越了解彼此就越喜欢对方,这为我们提供了另一种途径,我们可以努力促进世界的和平。

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

如果一个人对人性知之甚少,除了改变自己的性情之外,什么都不改变,只追求幸福,那么他的一生将浪费在徒劳的努力中。