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唯物主义
Materialism
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
无论多么痛苦的痛苦，很少有收入对其不起作用的。
The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land.
万能的美元，这一伟大的目标，我们的土地上的普遍奉献。
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
设摆筵席，是为喜笑。酒能使人快活。惟有钱能叫万事应心。
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
有钱的人比没钱的人更嫉妒富人。
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
我厌倦了爱;我更厌倦押韵;但是钱总是给我带来快乐。
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
曾经有一段时间，一个傻瓜和他的钱很快就分开了，但现在这种事发生在每个人身上。
Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin where you are.
从这个世界上的事物中抬起你的眼睛是一项必须从你所在的地方开始的活动。
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
一种冷漠的无神论唯物主义是当今所谓物质哲学的倾向。
It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
它曾说过，爱钱是万恶之源。缺钱是千真万确的。
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
正是对财产的执著阻碍了我们自由而高尚地生活。
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
那些有钱的人认为世界上最重要的是爱。穷人知道那是钱。
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
当代科学是以唯物主义哲学为基础的，唯物主义哲学主张一切现实都是物质的或物质的。
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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
自由只属于那些不再要求生活给他们带来任何受时间变化影响的个人财富的人。
To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
假设我们所有人都假设，我们可以富有而不像富人那样行事，就像假设我们可以整天喝酒而保持清醒一样。
Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
人们不仅渴望富有，而且希望比别人更富有。
The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I’d rather go into a grocery store today than to a king’s banquet a hundred years ago.
世界在进步，资源越来越丰富。我宁愿今天去杂货店，也不愿一百年前去参加国王的宴会。
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
金钱用一种所有国家都能理解的语言表达意义。
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
活得富有总比死得富有好。