The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

  • -- Chanakya 考底利耶

明智的人应该像鹤一样克制自己的感情,在适当了解自己的位置、时间和能力的情况下完成自己的目标。

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All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.

我们所要相信的是我们的感官,我们用来感知世界的工具:我们的视觉,我们的触觉,我们的记忆。如果他们对我们说谎,那么什么都不能相信。即使我们不相信,我们仍然不能以任何其他方式旅行,除了我们的感官告诉我们的道路;我们必须沿着这条路走到底。

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

我一恢复了知觉,就急忙离开了一个地方,我希望那里不会再有什么事耽搁我了。我先在口袋里装满了金子,然后把钱袋的线系在脖子上,藏在胸前。

With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both money and awareness for the long-term rebuilding effort we must all support.

有这么多杰出的艺术家在一张账单上,我们希望这场音乐会在筹集资金和提高我们都必须支持的长期重建工作的意识方面具有令人难以置信的强大能力。

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

人往深渊里看,没有东西在盯着他。在那一刻,人找到了自己的性格。这就是使他远离深渊的原因。

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

我只是一个人,但我就是一个人。我不能做所有的事,但我能做一些事。我不会让我不能做的事妨碍我能做的事。

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

出于道德目的,我在自然界中看不到任何痕迹。那是一件完全由人工制造的物品,非常值得我们赞赏。

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

教育是一种能力,能够倾听任何事情而不发脾气或失去自信。

Whenever I have any spare time I have a game of golf.

每当我有空闲时间,我就打高尔夫球。

I don't know what I'm going to say half the time.

我有一半的时间不知道该说什么。

A man in not known till he cometh to honour.

人未到尊荣以前,无人知晓。