A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
快乐
Pleasure
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
如果快乐之后没有痛苦，谁又能忍受呢?
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
有些爱就像一种恶习，不再给人带来快乐。
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
有些人为了打破诺言而打破诺言。
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
吃得最开心的人是最不需要调味汁的人。
Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.
学习责任，品味原创的乐趣。
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
所有艺术的本质都是在给予快乐中获得快乐。
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
思想是智力的劳动，幻想是其乐趣。
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
痛苦和快乐，就像光明和黑暗一样，相互接替。
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
人生最大的乐趣就是做别人说你做不到的事。
That is precisely the trouble with sheer pleasure--its sheerness.
这正是纯粹快乐的问题所在——它的复杂性。
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
智慧人的目的，不是寻求快乐，乃是避免痛苦。
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
人不是生来就喜欢一成不变的东西的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment pain of love lasts, a lifetime.
爱情带来的快乐只能持续片刻，而爱情带来的痛苦却能持续一生。
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
我感到最强烈的乐趣是刺穿石头，以创造一个抽象的形式和空间;这和现实主义的感觉完全不同。
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
我的乐趣在于复制，而不是创造。
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
快乐中唯一的痛苦就是痛苦中的快乐。
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
文学是我向同胞们举起镜子的召唤，这对我来说很自然;在开放的发明领域，我并不是没有希望给他们带来快乐。
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
重要的问题不是，什么能使人获得一些分散的快乐，而是什么能使他的生活总体上幸福。