Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about.

  • -- Niccolò Machiavelli 尼科尔·马基雅维利

许多人设想了从未在现实中出现过或知道存在过的共和国和君主国;因为我们所行的与所当行的相距甚远,那弃绝已经行的,只取应该行的,反倒要成就。

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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

想象的乐趣就像图画和模型一样,是那些买不起真品的穷人玩的。

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

人类有了想象力来弥补自己的不足。他的幽默感是用来安慰他的。

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

阻止我们完全沉溺于一种恶习的原因,往往是我们有好几种恶习。

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

你的世界是你如何运用你的思想的活的表达。

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

现实意味着你活到死。真正的事实是没有人想要现实。

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

你们是弓,儿女是从其中发出生命的箭。

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

在现实中,艺术总是为每个人而不是为任何人。

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

进入这里的人们,请放弃一切希望。