He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

  • -- William Manchester 威廉·曼彻斯特

他是一个非常自相矛盾的人。

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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

悖论实际上是理智生活的悲哀之处,正如只有伟大的灵魂才会受到激情的熏陶一样,只有伟大的思想家才会受到我所说的悖论的熏陶。

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

一个男人不会把他真正的、最深沉的爱留给一个女人,因为在她的陪伴下,他会感到神魂颠倒、神魂颠倒,但他会把他的爱留给一个女人,因为在她的陪伴下,他会感到温柔的昏昏欲睡。

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

爱统管院子,营寨,树林,地上的人和天上的圣徒,因为爱就是天堂,天堂就是爱。

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

现实的矛盾之处在于,没有一个形象能像只存在于脑海中的形象那样令人信服。

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

逆境造就人,顺境造就怪物。

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

时间使万物成熟;没有人生来聪明。