A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
激情
Passions
The belly teaches all arts.
肚皮教所有的艺术。
One nail drives out another.
一颗钉子钉出另一颗。
A man in passion rides a mad horse.
一个有激情的人骑着一匹疯马。
Where passion is high, reason is low.
激情高涨的地方，理智就会低落。
A candle lights others and consumes itself.
蜡烛照亮别人，却毁灭了自己。
We are minor in everything but our passions.
除了我们的激情，我们在任何事情上都是次要的。
It is better for the eye to die than the heart.
眼死总比心死好。
We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.
我们不能让我们的激情摧毁我们的梦想。
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
人有理性，上帝有激情。
I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
我一直都承认我被自己的激情所控制。
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
控制你的感情，以免它们报复你。
Master your passions or your passions will master you.
控制你的激情，否则激情会控制你。
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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
当智慧的课程通过故事的基础来抓住我们的内心时，它对我们的影响最大。
When your passions and desires align you cannot hold them back.
当你的激情和欲望一致时，你就无法抑制它们。
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
离别减少平庸的激情，却增加伟大的激情，正如风吹灭蜡烛，煽旺篝火。
I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.
我羡慕有梦想和激情的人，但我不这么认为。我仍然没有“幸福”可以追随。对于像我这样的人来说——我怀疑这是大多数人——坚持一个“梦想”或一个“激情”是令人麻痹的。我喜欢有意义的工作。这很难……但这就够了。
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
理性是，也只应该是激情的奴隶，除了服务和服从激情之外，永远不能伪装成任何别的职务。