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人类
Mankind
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
人之所以变得文明，不是因为他们愿意相信，而是因为他们愿意怀疑。
Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.
人类有自己的地方情结。他们特别注意他们出生和成长的地方。
The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
真理在人类中传播得越快，对他们就越有利。只是让我们确信这是事实。
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
有人说人是理性的动物。我一生都在寻找支持这一观点的证据。
It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
为知识本身而追求知识，并看看它如何能以更实际的方式帮助人类，这一直是一种特权。
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
所有愚蠢行为中，代价最大的是狂热地相信明显不真实的东西。它是人类的主要职业。
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
人是如此简单，如此倾向于服从眼前的需要，以至于一个骗子永远不会因为他的欺骗而缺少受害者。
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
人类不是一个只有一个中心的圆，而是一个有两个焦点的椭圆，其中一个焦点是事实，另一个焦点是思想。
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
对幸福的蔑视通常是对他人幸福的蔑视，是对人类仇恨的优雅伪装。
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
一个值得深思的奇妙事实是，每一个人的生命都是如此的神秘莫测。
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it
当一个民族诞生了一个能产生伟大思想的人，另一个民族也诞生了一个能理解和欣赏伟大思想的人
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
我提出了全人类的普遍倾向，一种对权力的永无休止的欲望，这种欲望只有在死亡时才会停止。
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
历史不过是人类罪恶、愚蠢和不幸的记录。
In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.
在当今世界，在我们这个时代，我们感到人类历史上前所未有的苦难、痛苦、肉体和灵魂的折磨。
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
人靠衣装，不靠风度;但当他被造出来的时候，他们大大改善了他的外貌。
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
一个人的意义不在于他得到了什么，而在于他渴望得到什么。
In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.
在人类的进化过程中，始终存在着一定程度的社会一致性。
The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.
玫瑰没有任何解释;她绽放，因为她绽放。