A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人类本性
Human Nature
I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.
事实上，我认为秘密只是人性的一部分，每个人都应该有一些。
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
人的本性中肯定有一种内在的倾向，那就是从所有的恶中榨取所有的善。
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
在人类本性中，没有一种倾向比为他人制定行为准则的愿望更强烈。
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
莎士比亚精彩地揭示了人性:他照亮了我们本能地想要支配彼此的欲望。
Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.
人性意味着制度在某种程度上失去了使命感。这种脆弱性驱使着太平洋投资管理公司。
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
所谓对人性的敏锐认识，基本上只是观察者自身的弱点在他人身上的反映。
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
许多心理学家、语言学家和生物学家都赞同我对人性的看法，更不用说几个世纪前的哲学家和学者了。
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
如果一个人对人性知之甚少，除了改变自己的性情之外，什么都不改变，只追求幸福，那么他的一生将浪费在徒劳的努力中。
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
希腊人拥有一种人性的知识，如果不经历一种新野蛮主义的强化冬眠，我们似乎很难达到这种知识。
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.
父母和子女的感情似乎和人的天性一样热烈，他们的情感和依恋也和人的天性一样活跃和忠诚。
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
我们从小就习惯于践踏人性的权利，每一种慷慨、每一种自由的感情，如果没有熄灭，也会在我们的头脑中衰弱下去。
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
恶与善孰重孰轻不是人类的本性;当一个人被迫从两种罪恶中选择一种时，没有人会在他可能拥有的更少的时候选择更大的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.
人性中有很多美好的东西，人们越了解彼此就越喜欢对方，这为我们提供了另一种途径，我们可以努力促进世界的和平。
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.
那件刻着你名字的小玩意。是由一个特殊的事实引起的;但是，让人性蒙羞的是，这个话题的普遍性足以引起每一颗心的兴趣，而不是完全无法理解。
It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.
当然，我们将认识到，人类本性科学的每一项进步，迟早都会直接或间接地促进我们成功地控制人类本性，并将其改变为有利于共同福祉。
Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
爱情是一位陌生的主人，人性更是陌生。
It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
抱怨是人之常情，但我会继续努力，尽我所能。