He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

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

一个理性的人不应该被认为是偶然遇到理性的人,而应该是一个知道理性、能够判断理性、并对理性有真正品味的人。

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True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.

真因为这是,这也是事实,人就有很多获得什么,,,,的数字的那些失败使他们对现代生活的影响是普遍和控制。

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

不要惧怕伟大:有些人生来伟大,有些人成就伟大,有些人被强加于伟大之上。

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

那些最不拿自己开玩笑的人,会被别人的笑话逗乐。

Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

几何不是真的,它是有利的。