Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

  • -- Blaise Pascal 巴斯卡

诚挚是理智所调和的热情。

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We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

我们被教导要消费。这就是我们所做的。但如果我们意识到确实没有理由消费,这只是一种心态,这只是一种上瘾,那么我们就不会踩着别人的手爬上企业成功的阶梯。

Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.

就在几个小时以前,生活还充满了热情和欢乐,现在却突然变得苍白和病态。

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

我们的道德传统是随着我们的理性而发展的,而不是作为理性的产物。

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

你会做傻事,但要有热情去做。

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

你们要切慕死,就必得生。

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

野心和自知之明是最好的调和!