The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

  • -- Baruch Spinoza 斯宾诺莎

人类所能达到的最高活动是为理解而学习,因为理解就是自由。

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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

正确的纪律不在于外在的强迫,而在于能自发地导致可取而非不可取的行为的心理习惯。

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

一个有骨气的人的单独活动,比一个只有愿望的人的一千个人的活动更有效果。

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence or learning.

比起热情、雄辩和学识,善良更能使罪人改邪归正。

At life's most significant moments, we are always alone.

在人生最重要的时刻,我们总是孤独的。

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

即使没有老师,恶习也可以习得。

Trying to straighten the question mark!

试着把问号弄直!