The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

-- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

文艺复兴时期的思想不是朝圣者的思想，而是像古人一样，定居于城市的思想。

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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

我们可以肯定的是，文艺复兴后期的主要趋势是从人文主义转向人文主义，这种人文主义倾向于自由的扩展到最高程度的学科和选择性。

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By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

通过消灭欲望，你也消灭了思想。每个没有激情的人都没有行动的原则，也没有行动的动机。

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I'm a historian in my own mind.

在我看来，我是个历史学家。

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