To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,

  • -- Horace Walpole 霍勒斯·沃波尔

我所知道的最好的智慧,就是根据当时的情况,用常识行事;最好的哲学是尽自己的责任,顺其自然,恭敬地服从自己的命运;上帝保佑赐予我们如此多幸福的善良,

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I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.

我必须提前考虑。我有多喜欢投入五七年的时间来做这件事?当你是一个失业的演员,得到了一个电视节目试播员的职位,不管你是谁,你都会被要做出的改变所吸引。它让你远离失业线。

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

当我第一次对摄影感兴趣的时候,我认为它是一个完整的奶酪。我的想法是让它被认为是一门艺术。今天我对此毫不在意。摄影的使命是人与人之间以及每个人对自己的解释。

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

佛陀的教义:人之所以受苦,是因为他渴望拥有和永远拥有本质上是无常的东西……这种对占有欲望的失望是痛苦的直接原因。

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

行动提供了从未实现的满足感。你永远不会像你想的那么好。所以总是有希望的。

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

企图用武力达到善的目的,就像企图以割掉一个人的眼睛为代价,为他提供一个画室。

I love photos, because the best thing about it is that it never changes even when the person in it does.

我喜欢照片,因为它最好的地方是即使照片中的人改变了,它也不会改变。

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

不要让任何人在年轻时耽误对哲学的研究,也不要在年老时对哲学感到厌倦。

I always try to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.

我总是尽量相信每个人最好的一面,这样可以省去很多麻烦。

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

胡说八道之所以好,只是因为常识太有限了。

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?

古实人岂能改变皮肤呢。豹岂能改变斑点呢。