A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
激情
Passions
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
激情是唯一能说服人的演说家。
Absence cools moderate passions but inflames violent ones.
离别能冷却温和的感情，却能煽起暴烈的感情。
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。
I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.
我停止演戏是因为我有其他我想追求的激情。
The passions are like fire and water: good servants but bad masters.
热情似火似水:好仆人坏主人。
Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
为什么我们不能在不削弱善的情况下纠正邪恶的激情呢?
When passion entereth at the foregate, wisdom goeth out of the postern.
热情从门一进，智慧就从门一出。
Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
房子是我的爱好之一。我可能应该成为一名室内设计师。
To know another is not to know that person's face, but to know that person's heart.
认识一个人，不是要认识一个人的脸，而是要认识一个人的心。
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
当风吹过的时候，大海是平静的;当激情不再时，我们是多么平静啊!
The glory of the resistance and the pleasure of the defeat are our two favourite passions.
抵抗的光荣和失败的喜悦是我们最喜爱的两种激情。
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
任何试图摧毁激情而不是控制它们的人都是在扮演天使。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The belly teaches all arts.
肚皮教所有的艺术。
A man in passion rides a mad horse.
一个有激情的人骑着一匹疯马。
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
伟大的激情可能给我们一种加速的生活感觉，狂喜和悲伤的爱，各种形式的热情活动，无私或其他，这是自然的，我们许多人。
Where passion is high, reason is low.
激情高涨的地方，理智就会低落。
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。
A candle lights others and consumes itself.
蜡烛照亮别人，却毁灭了自己。