A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
谎言
Lies
The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
不可胜在己，可胜在敌。
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
从谎言到伪造的过程并不长，我写过关于伪造的逻辑和伪造对历史的影响的技术论文。
The continued utterance of a lie does not make it true, but it does convince many that it is, particularly if you can squelch most efforts to expose the lie.
不断地说谎并不能使它成为事实，但它确实能使许多人相信它是真的，尤其是如果你能压制大部分揭穿谎言的努力。
I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.
我真的没有什么秘密。我从来没有遇到过一位摄影师，他的作品让我尊敬，而他的作品有一个秘密，因为这个秘密就在我们每个人的内心深处。
The land lies desolate and stripped; Across its waste has thinly strayed A tattered host of eucalypt. From whose gaunt uniform is made A ragged penury of shade.
地荒凉，尽都荒凉。在它的荒地上，稀疏地散布着一群衣衫褴褛的桉树。从他那憔悴的制服上，可以看到一层破烂的黑影。
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
文字与心灵的结合产生了一种神秘，叫做生命……深入了解心灵及其奥秘，因为其中蕴藏着不朽的秘密。
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
白天的赌徒和晚上的赌徒之间有着同样的区别，就像一个粗心的丈夫和一个在妻子的窗下昏迷不醒的情人之间的区别一样。
Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.
这就是我们的问题所在。如果我们夷平这么多土地来种水稻之类的，那么除了一些害虫之外，就没有其他动物能在那里生存了。这是非常不幸的。
This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.
矛盾就在这里:他们希望上帝，他们希望人类。它们坚持把两项联系起来，而这两项一旦分开，就会重新结合在一起，只会互相毁灭。
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
如果你寻求真理，最终你会找到安慰;如果你寻求安慰，你将不会得到安慰或真相，只有软肥皂和一厢情愿的想法开始，最终，绝望。
Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way - who husbands it too carefully to waste it where it can be dispensed with.
尽管他还年轻，但他的直觉告诉他，最好的说谎者是那些把最小的谎话说得最多的人——那些非常小心地把谎话花在可以扔掉的地方的人。
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
当我们害怕的时候，我们会说谎……害怕我们不知道的，害怕别人会怎么想，害怕我们会被发现。但每一次我们说谎，我们害怕的东西就会变得更强大。
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True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.
真正的艺术表现在于情感的传达。
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
头戴王冠的人不安。
Analogies are like lies.
类比就像谎言。
The heart lies to itself because it must.
心对自己撒谎，因为它必须这样做。
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
半真半假的谎言永远是最恶毒的谎言。