Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

热血使年轻人经常改变他们的爱好,习惯使老年人保持他们的爱好很长一段时间。

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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

像孩子一样的男人不是发育受阻的人;相反,他给了自己一个继续发展的机会,即使大多数成年人早已将自己包裹在中年习惯和习俗的茧中。

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

常识是世界上分布得最均匀的东西,因为每个人都认为自己很有天赋,即使是那些在其他事情上最难满足的人,也没有比他们已经拥有的东西更渴望得到常识的习惯。

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

如果儿童的教育和研究符合他们的爱好和能力,许多人就会成为社会上有用的成员,否则就不会成为社会上的一员。