If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

  • -- Mortimer J. Adler 莫蒂默·杰尔姆·阿德勒

如果一个人想要另一个人只是为了某种自我满足,通常是以感官享受的形式,那么错误的欲望就会以欲望而不是爱的形式出现。

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There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

没有错误的理解,就没有意志和情感的罪恶。一个自然人的一切欲望都是无知的欲望。

I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are persecuted in that kind of way.

我的意思是,我可以非常高兴地回顾在苏丹发生的事情,以及我们对以这种方式受到迫害的人民所作的承诺。

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

爱生长。欲望因享受而浪费,原因是,一个来自灵魂的结合,另一个来自感觉的结合。

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

不劳而获地写出来的东西,读起来通常没有乐趣。

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

如果两个错误不能构成一个正确,那就尝试三个。

My approach has always been rather sensual.

我的方法一直是相当感性的。

The multitude is always in the wrong.

大众总是错的。