Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.

  • -- Seneca the Younger 塞内卡

我们的恐惧比我们的危险更多,我们在想象中比在现实中遭受更多的痛苦。

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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

历史上最惨痛的教训之一是:如果我们被愚弄的时间足够长,我们往往会拒绝任何有关这种欺骗的证据。竹竿把我们捉住了。一旦你让一个骗子控制了你,你几乎永远不会再得到它。

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

看电视就像给你的第三只眼睛涂上黑色喷漆。

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

我父亲是谁并不重要;重要的是我记得他是谁。

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

死亡是想象的暴君。