A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
欲望
Desiring
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
美德不在于戒除恶习，而在于不渴求恶习。
How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right.
有多少悲观主义者为了证明自己是对的，最终渴望得到他们所害怕的东西。
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
一个人要想成为真正的好人，最好的证据莫过于他希望经常受到好人的监视。
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.
因此，在欲望中，享受越被推迟，就越有幻想开始编织未来成果的对象形象，并给所期望的对象披上旨在激起冲动的特性。