How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right.

  • -- Robert Mallet 罗伯特·马莱

有多少悲观主义者为了证明自己是对的,最终渴望得到他们所害怕的东西。

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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

因此,在欲望中,享受越被推迟,就越有幻想开始编织未来成果的对象形象,并给所期望的对象披上旨在激起冲动的特性。

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

美德不在于戒除恶习,而在于不渴求恶习。