He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

  • -- Baruch Spinoza 斯宾诺莎

只有生活在完全理性指导下的人是自由的。

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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

即使整个大地和大海都变成金子,也无法满足一个女人的贪婪……用指甲刮钻石比用人类的聪明才智让一个女人同意捐出她的积蓄要容易得多。

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

但是爱,就像太阳一样,会燃烧并融化一切。多少个世纪以来,一个虔诚的灵魂,连同它的自然追随者,怀着怎样的贪婪和特权,怀着怎样的愤怒,将会被一推而下。

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

一个人的哲学不能用语言最好地表达;它表现在一个人做出的选择中……我们做出的选择最终是我们的责任。

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

大学的本质特征是成为一个自由调查和批评的中心——这是一件不能为其他任何事情牺牲的事情。

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

我可以被迫生活得没有幸福,但我决不会同意生活得没有荣誉。

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

自由的精神即使在自由本身的情况下也能获得自由。