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)
“这怎么可能！这位森林里的老圣人还不知道，上帝死了！”
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“Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that GOD IS DEAD!”
— 尼采, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
“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
“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
“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)
“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, or Life in the Woods
“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
“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
“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
“第一个圈出一块土地，并想到说“这是我的”，且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者。”
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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.”
— 让-雅克·卢梭, The social contract & discourses
“人们如此单纯，又如此受制于眼前的需求，以至于想要欺骗的人总能找到愿意受骗的人。”
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“Men are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.”
— 马基雅维利, The Prince
“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
“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.”
— 帕斯卡, 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
“星、翳、灯、幻、露、泡。梦、电、云——我们应当这样看待世界。”
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“Stars, darkness, a lamp, a phantom, dew, a bubble. A dream, a flash of lightning, and a cloud - thus we should look upon the world.”
— 大乘经, Buddhist Mahayana Texts: Diamond Sutra, Heart Sutra, Sukhavativyuha (SBE XLIX)
“我自身能够从火宅中通过门，安全且迅速地出来……但我的孩子们，那些年幼的男孩，却留在火宅中，玩耍、嬉戏，沉溺于各种游戏之中。”
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“I myself am able to come out from the burning house through the door, quickly and safely... but my children, those young boys, are staying in the burning house, playing, amusing, and diverting themselves with all sorts of sports.”
— 法华经, The Saddharma-Pundarika (Lotus of the True Law, SBE XXI)
“人是一根系在动物与超人之间的绳索——一根横跨深渊的绳索。”
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“Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss.”
— 尼采, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
“人之所以伟大，是因为他是一座桥梁，而非终点。”
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“What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal”
— 尼采, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
“有时万物因爱而合为一体；有时万物又因争斗的仇恨而分崩离析。”
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“Whiles into One do all through Love unite; Whiles too the same are rent through hate of Strife.”
— 恩培多克勒, The fragments of Empedocles;
“传道者说：虚空的虚空，虚空的虚空，凡事都是虚空。”
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“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.”
— 圣经, The Holy Bible (King James Version)