Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

  • -- Erich Fromm 埃里希·弗洛姆

贪婪是一个无底洞,使人精疲力竭,无休止地努力满足需要,却永远得不到满足。

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When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.

当他带着明显的自我满足问我对这个情景的看法时,我几乎不知道该如何回答。我问他是否看过那出戏,他说没有,我一点也不惊讶。

You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being.

你不会和一个人结婚;你和三个人结婚:你认为他们是什么样的人,他们是什么样的人,他们会成为什么样的人。

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

没有任何计划可以阻止一个愚蠢的人在错误的时间在错误的地点做错误的事情,但是一个好的计划应该阻止注意力的形成。

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

把碗装满水,水就会溢出来。继续磨刀,它会钝的。

Many have too much, but none have enough.

许多人拥有太多,但没有一个人拥有足够。

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

贪婪是暮年的恶习。