To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

  • -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 约翰·沃尔夫冈·冯·歌德

真正被爱,是最大的例外。绝大多数人只爱他们借给他的东西,他们自己,他们自己的版本的他。

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Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.

不要让自己被任何感情所束缚。保持你的孤独。如果真有那么一天,当你得到真爱的时候,你内心的孤独和友谊之间就不会有对立,反之亦然。即使是这个绝对正确的信号,你也会认出它来。

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

奇怪的是,在政治上,打出牌的最好方法是面朝上放在桌上。