So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

  • -- Baruch Spinoza 斯宾诺莎

只要一个人认为他不能做这个或那个,只要他下定决心不做它;因此,只要他不可能去做,他就会去做。

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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

当一个人在他的写作中对这一点或那一点有疑问时,如果他问自己一百年后它将如何告诉他,它常常会指引他。

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

人是如此的天生,只有当他了解自己的时候,他才能胜过其他的东西。

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

一个人永远不会像他想象的那样幸运或不幸。

Nothing is ever as one imagines it.

没有什么是你想象的那样。