The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

  • -- Charles Baudelaire 查尔斯·波德莱尔

我们从对现在的描绘中获得的快乐,不仅是因为它可以披上美丽的外衣,还因为它是现在的本质。

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To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.

要寻求永恒的道路,我们必须先知道没有名字的品质。在一个人、一座城市、一座建筑或一片荒野中,有一种核心品质是生命和精神的根本准则。这种品质是客观和精确的,但却无法命名。

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

为什么不立刻抓住快乐,有多少时候快乐会被准备,愚蠢的准备毁掉。

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

卓越是无限的能力,以提高你所提供的质量。

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

欺骗欺骗人的人是双倍的快乐。