If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

  • -- Mortimer J. Adler 莫蒂默·杰尔姆·阿德勒

如果一个人想要另一个人只是为了某种自我满足,通常是以感官享受的形式,那么错误的欲望就会以欲望而不是爱的形式出现。

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If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

如果在众多的争辩中,你曾犹豫和怀疑;如果,当一项巨大的责任出现时,你已经逃避了,害怕向前走以免出错,那又有什么好奇怪的呢?

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

在我们准备过高估计别人的时候,可能有一种恶意的成分——可以说,我们是在为自己积累一种乐趣,以便以后把他们的身材缩小。

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

没有错误的理解,就没有意志和情感的罪恶。一个自然人的一切欲望都是无知的欲望。

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

无所事事是没有乐趣的;有趣的是有很多事情要做而不去做。

Prove the cynic's wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination.

证明愤世嫉俗者错了。可怜他们吧,他们没有想象力。

My approach has always been rather sensual.

我的方法一直是相当感性的。