A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

  • -- Bette Davis 贝蒂·戴维斯

我发现,失去幸福的一种必然的方式,就是牺牲其他一切来换取幸福。

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

我们应该为年老做好准备,这样,这个世界就不会迫切需要从对下一个世界的冥想中吸收老年。看到老态龙钟的瘦削的手在坟墓上做棺材是可怕的。

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

即使在我们看来是最荒谬和最愚蠢的几个世纪里,对美的永恒的欲望总是能得到满足。

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

国家是一个巨大的虚拟实体,每个人都试图以牺牲他人为代价来生存。

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

任何卖不出去的东西,我都不想发明。它的销售是效用的证明,效用就是成功。

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

幸福是可以找到的,即使在最黑暗的时候,只要一个人记得打开灯。

Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

当企业过度投资于以可能为代价的东西时,它们就会失败。