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.

  • -- René Descartes 任_笛卡尔

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。

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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

当你做了错误的事情,你知道它是错误的,你这样做是因为你没有养成有效控制或中和诱惑你的强烈内心冲动的习惯,或者是因为你已经养成了错误的习惯,不知道如何有效地消除它们。

Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

迈耶和我有一些共同之处,因为我们都是左撇子。我认为他能寻求这样的建议很好,因为他不太酷,也不太不舒服,不会去要求。

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

人们可能会把习惯称为道德摩擦:一种阻止思维掠过事物,但又将其与之联系起来,使其难以摆脱的东西。

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

人类是一种最奇特的生物。他认为他有一个灵魂,而他有几十个。

In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

在这种美已经消失的地方,我们将重建它。

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.

一句毫无意义的话,无论听多少遍,都是毫无意义的。

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

足球是生死攸关的事,但更重要的是。

Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.

不要为这条路订一条,因为这条路已经铺好了。

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

我们共同的自由因共同的悲哀而神圣。

This is your world. shape it or someone else will.

这是你的世界。要么塑造它,要么别人来塑造它。

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

一个人整天想的就是他自己。

Very little in this world makes sense.

在这个世界上没有什么是有意义的。