The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

毁灭一个人的疾病并不比保护他的本能更不自然。

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Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

我想,这就是我的天性吧,我喜欢结交新朋友,而且很愿意和他们断绝关系,虽然我这样做总是有充分的理由,而且决不是由于一时的浮躁。

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.

对他来说,人类偏离自然最初所处的状态似乎已证明是一种疾病的大量来源。

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

厚颜无耻是人类最可怕的疾病。