The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  • -- Frances Burney 弗朗西斯·伯尼

我们的心太自然地倾向于享乐,却太容易屈服于放荡。

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Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really  mean anything.

生活是由微小的快乐组成的。幸福是由那些微小的成功组成的。大地震来的太不频繁了。如果你不把这些小的成功都收集起来,那么大的成功就没有任何意义。

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

独处的一半乐趣来自于和一些朋友在一起,我们可以说孤独是多么甜蜜。

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

对我来说,耐心不是与生俱来的,但在烹饪中,它是最重要的技能。

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

思想本身就在制造分裂,然后说它们是自然存在的。