It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

  • -- Honoré de Balzac 尊敬的巴尔扎克

做一个爱人比做一个丈夫容易,原因很简单:每天保持机智比时不时地说些好听的话更难。

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Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

一切深刻的东西都是简单的,只要保持对整个真理的参照,就可以简单地再现出来。但重要的不是机智,而是真实。

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

我认为,在更文明的社会中,女性的作用一直在不断增强。

No; small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone.

没有;小偷小摸的人进去,把它给毁了。

Let's have some new cliches.

让我们来听一些新的陈词滥调。