To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

  • -- Claude Adrien Helvetius 克劳德·阿德里安·海尔维提乌斯

限制媒体就是侮辱一个国家;禁止阅读某些书籍就等于宣布居民不是傻子就是奴隶。

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The beauty of Good reads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

好的阅读之美在于,你知道你正在播种的土地上,根据定义和自我选择,每个人都喜欢阅读。

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to accept what is true.

被愚弄的方法有两种。一个是相信不真实的东西;二是拒绝接受事实。

I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

我喜欢一切古老的东西:老朋友、旧时代、旧礼节、旧书、旧酒。

Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

每个人至少要穿破一双笨鞋。

Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away.

哪里有别人,哪里就有战争。

Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare.

读者多,思考者少。