Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

  • -- Xunzi 荀子

人类的本性是这样的,如果人们生来就有对利益的热爱,如果他们追随这些倾向,他们就会互相斗争,互相抢夺,而倾向于推迟或屈服将会消亡。

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This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

这就是莎士比亚的形式;谁走在人生的每一条道路上,感受着每一份激情;对于全人类来说,只有他自己的天才才能获得的经验,现在才会有,将来也永远会有。

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

如果儿童的教育和研究符合他们的爱好和能力,许多人就会成为社会上有用的成员,否则就不会成为社会上的一员。

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

热血使年轻人经常改变他们的爱好,习惯使老年人保持他们的爱好很长一段时间。

A bad tree does not yield good apples.

坏树结不出好苹果。