Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

  • -- Blaise Pascal 巴斯卡

习惯是第二天性,它能破坏第一天性。但什么是自然?为什么习惯不是自然的?我很担心,自然本身只是第一个习惯,就像习惯是第二天性一样。

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It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

当听到你被大肆宣传,说你没有天赋,说你的整个职业生涯都是人为设计的时候,你的灵魂会崩溃。

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

变老只不过是一个忙碌的人没有时间养成的坏习惯。

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

我宁愿在村子里当第一名,也不愿在罗马当第二名。

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

先驱者破坏事物并称之为文明。

A habit does not a monk make.

和尚不能养成习惯。