What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

人们所说的友谊只不过是一种社会安排,一种利益的相互调整,一种给予和接受服务的交换;总之,这只是一个简单的业务,涉及的人建议从中获得稳定的利润,为自己的爱。

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As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

因此,进步仅仅意味着更大的权力、更多的利润、更高的生产率、更多的纸张繁荣,所有这些都可以转化为只与大小或规模有关的标准,而不是质量或卓越性。

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.

在基本音轨被剪掉之后,如果我在写喇叭的编曲或者演奏弦乐,我可能会安排,计划好。其他时候,我只是坐着卷磁带。

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with.

真正的好品味在于言简意赅,在我们的思想中进行选择,在我们所说的话中保持秩序和安排,以及与人交谈。

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

如果你把所有的资产都计算在内,你总能得到利润。