People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

  • -- Blaise Pascal 巴斯卡

人们通常更相信自己发现的原因,而不是别人发现的原因。

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There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.

世界上没有任何地方不应该被科学家研究。总会有一些问题没有得到解答。一般来说,这些问题尚未提出。

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

西班牙人民的天才是非常微妙的,但一点也不敏锐;因此,他们的文学作品充满了幽默,却缺乏智慧。

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

在文学上还有一个伟大的发现,那就是按文学工作者不写作的数量支付报酬。

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

我宁愿在自己的地板上烂掉,也不愿在养老院被一群玩宾果游戏的人发现。

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

我们的灵魂不过是风暴中的树叶,只有诸神知道我们将在何处安息。

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

引导孩子走上正确的道路,不是靠严厉,而是靠说服。

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

为什么要用永恒的目标去烦扰一个意志薄弱的人去把握它们?

I have found two Roman sites in the area that I live in.

我在我居住的地区发现了两个罗马遗址。