Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

  • -- Blaise Pascal 巴斯卡

连续的口才的疲倦。要欣赏伟大,就必须抛弃它。任何事情的连续性都是令人不快的。冷是适宜的,这样我们就可以暖和起来。

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The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

自由主义观点的本质不在于人们持有什么样的观点,而在于人们如何持有这些观点:人们不是武断地持有这些观点,而是试探性地持有这些观点,并意识到新的证据随时可能导致人们抛弃这些观点。

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

很长一段时间,我都不写音乐,因为我认为它会分散注意力,直到我意识到它实际上打开了我头脑中某个无意识的生产力宝库。

But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.

但是录制这张专辑的方法是一种有组织的、混乱的方法,我想要保持和保存那种对创作的野性。

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

公正合理的谦虚不仅能使人能言善辩,而且能激发人的一切才能。

I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

我从来没有做得好,当我被赞赏。当我成为死亡的目标时,我做得最好。

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

当人们急于说出真相时,不愉快的事情就来了。

Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.

躺在床上,我又放弃了事实,回到了安布罗西亚。

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

我心目中的“令人愉快的人”是指与我意见一致的人。

Discretion in speech is more important than eloquence.

演讲时谨慎比雄辩更重要。

Though the proverb is abandoned, it is not falsified.

虽然这句谚语被抛弃了,但它并没有被篡改。