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The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

  • -- Seneca the Younger 塞内卡

赋予事物的精神决定了承认债务的精神;衡量的是礼物的心意，而不是它的表面价值。

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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

正如做最邪恶、最邪恶的事需要精神和才能一样，即使是最邪恶的事也需要某种麻木不仁，在其他情况下，我们称之为愚蠢。

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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

艺术是沉思。这是心灵的快乐，它探索自然，并在那里占卜自然本身所具有的精神。

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