The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

  • -- Frances Wright 弗朗西丝·莱特

现行的自私利益和竞争原则已经到了极点;在这一过程中,它孤立了人类的心灵,钝化了人类最敏锐的感情,消灭了人类最慷慨的冲动和同情心。

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We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

当我们只关心或主要关心自己的利益时,我们就是自私的。当我们完全或主要关心他人的利益时,我们是利他的。

I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.

我没有意识到有多少人仍然对我正在做的事情感兴趣,如果不是因为我在网上,我永远不会认识这些人。

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

当有那么多的人孤独到似乎是孤独的时候,一个人孤独是不可原谅的自私。

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

一个人慷慨地给予,而另一个人却不慷慨地接受。

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

你知道这不是我支付本金的利息,也不是我支付利息的本金。

The heart of a man may be compared to a sausage; no one can tell exactly what's inside.

人的心可以比作一根香肠;没有人能确切地说出里面是什么。

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

这是贫穷的痛苦诅咒之一;没有权利慷慨。

I am at heart a gentleman.

我本质上是个绅士。