人性
“纯粹自然的状态……是一种人人对人人作战的状态。”
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“The condition of mere nature... is a condition of war of every man against every man.”
— 托马斯·霍布斯, The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 03 (of 11)
“人的生活是孤独、贫困、卑污、残忍而短促的。”
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“The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
— 托马斯·霍布斯, The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 03 (of 11)
“权力意志是原始的动力，其他所有动机皆由此衍生。”
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“The will to power is the primitive motive force out of which all other motives have been derived.”
— 尼采, The Will to Power
“人天生是政治动物。”
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“Man is naturally a political animal.”
— 亚里士多德, Politics A Treatise on Government
“自然状态有一种支配它的自然法，它约束着每一个人。”
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“The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one.”
— Locke, Second Treatise of Government
“仇恨永远不能止息仇恨：仇恨唯有通过爱才能止息，这是一条古老的法则。”
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“Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.”
— 法句经, The Dhammapada
“没有任何事情发生在一个人身上，是他天性所不能承受的。”
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“Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.”
— 马可·奥勒留, Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“伟大的真理无法占据大众的心灵。”
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“Great truths do not take hold of the hearts of the masses.”
— 庄周, Chuang Tzu Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer
“互助与相互斗争一样，都是动物生活的自然法则。”
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“Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.”
— 彼得·克鲁泡特金, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
“人口若无限制，将以几何比率增长。生活资料仅以算术比率增长。”
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“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.”
— 托马斯·马尔萨斯, An Essay on the Principle of Population
“我们遭受的痛苦，往往在想象中多于在现实中。”
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“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
— 卢基乌斯·安纽斯·塞涅卡, Moral Letters to Lucilius (Epistulae Morales)
“白纸可以接受任何字符。”
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“White paper receives any characters.”
— Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1
“生活是一桩生意，其收益远不足以抵消其成本。”
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“Life is a business, the proceeds of which are very far from covering the cost of it.”
— 阿图尔·叔本华, The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)
“大多数人都过着平静的绝望生活。”
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“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
— 亨利·戴维·梭罗, Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
“他在这件事上，正如在许多其他情况下一样，被一只看不见的手引导着去促进一个并非他本意的目的。”
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“He is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.”
— 亚当·斯密, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
“良知是世间分配得最均匀的东西。”
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“Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed.”
— 笛卡尔, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth
“贫穷的不是拥有太少的人，而是渴望更多的人。”
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“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
— 卢基乌斯·安纽斯·塞涅卡, Moral Letters to Lucilius (Epistulae Morales)
“与怪物战斗的人，应当小心不要因此变成怪物。当你长久凝视深渊时，深渊也在凝视你。”
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“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.”
— 尼采, Beyond Good and Evil
“爱中总有某种疯狂。但疯狂中也总有某种方法。”
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“There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness.”
— 尼采, Thus Spake Zarathustra A Book for All and None
“每个人都把自己的视野极限当作世界的极限。”
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“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
— 阿图尔·叔本华, The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism
“人口的增长必然受到生活资料的限制。”
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“The increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence.”
— 托马斯·马尔萨斯, An Essay on the Principle of Population
“人确实是彻头彻尾的疯子；他造不出一只蠕虫，却要成打地制造上帝。”
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“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
— 米歇尔·德·蒙田, Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete
“教育开启一个人时的方向，将决定他未来的生活。”
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“The direction in which education starts a man, will determine his future life.”
— 柏拉图, The Republic
“宇宙即转化：生活即看法。”
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“The universe is transformation: life is opinion.”
— 马可·奥勒留, Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“第一个圈起一块土地，想到说“这是我的”，并发现人们天真到足以相信他的人，才是文明社会的真正奠基人。”
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“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.”
— Rousseau, The social contract & discourses
“人们是如此单纯，又如此屈从于眼前的需求，以至于任何想要欺骗的人，总能找到另一个会被欺骗的人。”
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“Men are so simple, and yield so much to the present necessities, that he who hath a mind to deceive, shall always find another that will be deceived.”
— 马基雅维利, Machiavelli, Volume I
“我们很少想到我们拥有的，却总是想到我们缺乏的。”
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“We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.”
— 阿图尔·叔本华, The Art of Controversy
“每件事物的真实价格，即每件事物对想要获得它的人来说真正付出的代价，就是获得它所付出的辛劳和麻烦。”
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“The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.”
— 亚当·斯密, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
“习俗的专制到处都是人类进步的阻碍。”
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“The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.”
— 约翰·斯图尔特·密尔, On Liberty
“邪恶存在于世上，不是为了制造绝望，而是为了激发行动。”
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“Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.”
— 托马斯·马尔萨斯, An Essay on the Principle of Population
“正如雨水会穿透屋顶不严的房子，激情也会穿透不加反思的心灵。”
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“As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind.”
— 法句经, The Dhammapada
“他人的过错容易察觉，但自己的过错却难以察觉。”
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“The fault of others is easily perceived, but that of oneself is difficult to perceive.”
— 法句经, The Dhammapada
“不要轻视邪恶，以为它不会降临到自己身上。”
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“Let no man think lightly of evil, saying in his heart, It will not come nigh unto me.”
— 法句经, The Dhammapada
“人只不过是一根芦苇，是自然界中最脆弱的东西；但他是一根能思想的芦苇。”
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“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.”
— Pascal, Pascal's Pensées
“所有人都寻求幸福。这是毫无例外的。”
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“All men seek happiness. This is without exception.”
— Pascal, Pascal's Pensées
“对蜂群无益的，对蜜蜂也无益。”
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“That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee.”
— 马可·奥勒留, Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“一个人的价值或身价，就像其他所有事物一样，是他的价格。”
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“The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price.”
— 托马斯·霍布斯, Leviathan