If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

  • -- William Hazlitt 威廉·哈兹里特

如果我以前没有读过一本书,无论它是昨天出版的还是三百年前出版的,无论从任何意义上说,对我来说都是新的。

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There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

我们的文化正在经历这样的腐朽,这样的解体。价值观,道德等等。标准已经放宽,人们不再被要求遵守这些标准。人们的意图,如果他们被认为是好的和光荣的,那才是最重要的。

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

没能读到好书,既削弱了我们的视野,也强化了我们最致命的倾向——即相信此时此地就是一切。

This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibility never to be discounted.

这本书不会伤害你,除非有人把它扔向你。

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

一个字就是真理。滑,棘手,不可靠。我在这些书中试图讲出真相。

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

这个世界上大多数的罪恶都是出于善意的。

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

我们应该读书给我们的灵魂一个享受的机会。