To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

  • -- Maimonides 迈蒙尼德

在完善的法律的全部目的中,有尽可能地放弃、贬低和抑制欲望。

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The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

自由主义观点的本质不在于人们持有什么样的观点,而在于人们如何持有这些观点:人们不是武断地持有这些观点,而是试探性地持有这些观点,并意识到新的证据随时可能导致人们抛弃这些观点。

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

如果我们放弃对什么是真的,什么是假的,什么是不确定的关心,世界将会完全混乱。一方面,即使是那些否认真相重要性的人,也会很快抓住任何一个说谎的人。

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

生活、不幸、孤独、遗弃、贫穷,都是有英雄的战场;无名英雄,有时比显赫的英雄更伟大。

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

一个人不妨试着骑两匹马向不同的方向运动,就像试着以同样的力量维持两种对立或矛盾的欲望。

I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

我从未结过婚,现在我也不想再结婚了。我讨厌官僚主义,也不信教。