要恋爱而又要理智是不可能的。 ——培根:《随笔》 It is impossible to love and be wise. ——Bacon. Essays 爱把小时算作日,把日子当作年;/每次短暂的别离恍若隔世变迁。 —— 约翰 德莱顿 Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; /And every little absence is an age. ——John Dryden 不成熟的爱说:“我爱你因我需要你。”成熟的爱说:“我需要你因我爱你”。 ——埃里希 弗里姆:《爱的艺术》 Immature love says:"I love you because I need you." Mature love says:"I need you because I love you." ——Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving 人生至高的幸福,便是感到自己有人爱。 ——维克多 雨果:《悲惨世界》 The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. ——Victor Hugo, Les Miserables 不要说爱被浪费,爱将永不浪费。/即使不能充实另一颗心灵,它涓涓的细流也会像甘霖回落清泉,带来新鲜活力;/喷涌流泻的清泉终将回归大地。 ——朗费罗 :《伊凡吉林》 Take not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;/If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters; returning/Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; /That which the foutain sends forth returns again to the fountain. —— Longfellow ,Evangeline 恶意常披着真理外衣 。 ——威廉 黑兹里特:《直言者》 Malice often takes the garb of truth. —— William Hazlitt, The Plain Speaker 有千万条道路从来没有人踏过,有千百个强身之道和生命的秘密岛屿从来没有被发现,人类和人类社会仍然无穷无尽,有待发掘。 —— 尼采:《查拉图斯特拉如是说》 A thousand paths are there which have never yet been trodden; a thousand salubri ties and hidden islands of life. Unexhausted and undiscovered is still man and man's world. ——Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra 人是一件多么了不起的杰作!多么高贵的理性!多么无穷的才智!多么优雅的仪表!多么敏捷的举止!行动多么象天使!睿智多么像天神!美的化身!万物之灵! ——莎士比亚:《哈姆雷特》 What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! ——Shakespeare, Hamlet 婚前睁大双眼,婚后半睁半闭。 ——本杰明.富兰克林 Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. ——Benjamin Franklin 婚姻中三分是爱,七分是宽恕。 ——兰顿 米切尔: 《纽约观念》 Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. ——Langdon Mitchell, The New York Idea 男子的美在于刚中有柔,女子的美在于柔中有刚。 ——苏姗.桑塔格 What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Susan Sontag 与其铭记在心徒伤悲,莫若忘却往事笑盈盈。 ——克里斯蒂娜.罗塞蒂 Better by far you should forget and smile/Than that you should remember and be sad. ——Christina Rossetti 宁可平平安安地吃粗茶淡饭,而不愿胆颤心惊地吃大鱼大肉. ——伊索《寓言》 Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear. ——Aesop, Fables |
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