To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

  • -- George Gordon Byron 乔治·戈登·拜伦

一个人要想完全具有原创性,就应该多思考,少阅读,而这是不可能的,因为一个人必须在学会思考之前阅读。

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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

社会的力量,就象我们不知道从哪里来的风,也不知道把它吹到什么地方去,不管它吹向什么地方一样,都是从一个遥远而不为人知的地方来的。它们产生于哲学出现之前,源于本能,而不是人类的思辨。

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

教育孩子的人比养育孩子的人更值得尊敬;因为这些人只给了他们生命,那些人活得很好。