If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

  • -- Epictetus 埃皮克特斯

如果一个人超越了适度的界限,最大的快乐就会停止。

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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

想象的乐趣就像图画和模型一样,是那些买不起真品的穷人玩的。

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

也许最大的阅读乐趣有自我毁灭的成分。如此全神贯注以至于你几乎不知道自己的存在。

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while we're still alive. Never surrender.

死亡不是人生最大的损失。最大的损失是当我们还活着的时候,内心已经死去。永远不会投降。

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

放纵自己,最大的快乐带来最大的痛苦。