Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

  • -- Sarah Fielding 莎拉·菲尔丁

正是这种把一切事物都屈从于我们自己目的的欲望,使它们变得混乱,是我们生活中每一个错误的主要根源。

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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

我不会因为那些自以为比我更优秀的人的要求而改变我的路线。

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

压抑最初的欲望要比满足随后的欲望容易得多。