A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
本身
Itself
Perfection itself is imperfection.
完美本身就是不完美。
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
我们是宇宙认识自身的一种方式。
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
美德本身并无恶意中伤之嫌。
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
成长本身就包含着幸福的萌芽。
Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.
唤醒它的力量，它就会尊重自己。
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
灵感是上帝与自己的接触。
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
期待失败是失败本身的十分之九。
Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
说得足够清楚，一个想法可能会自我抵消。
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
知识分子是那种能观察自己思想的人。
All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
所有连接…没有一件事可以单独改变。
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
艺术本身就是从混乱中恢复秩序的一种尝试。
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
官僚主义产生了自己，然后期望生育福利。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
我们将从苦难的心中汲取灵感和生存的手段。
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
我想，没有什么，甚至没有犯罪，比这种没完没了的工作更反对诗歌，更反对哲学，更反对生活本身了。
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
这份报告篇幅很长，它为自己辩护，避免了被人阅读的风险。
To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
思考本身是有用的;在任何情况下，它总是向上帝奋斗。
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
我认为，政治不过是一门科学，它沿着对自身最有益和最方便的道路，有序地推动社会进步。