塞涅卡 名言
“对施加惩罚的人来说,没有什么比愤怒更不相称了,因为如果判决是经过深思熟虑才宣布的,惩罚就更有力量使人改过。”
AI 把这份 1889 年的译文改写成了今天的英语。改动的只是措辞:每一处改写都与原文核对过,以保留其确切含义。
“Nothing becomes one who inflicts punishment less than anger, because the punishment has all the more power to work reformation if the sentence be pronounced with deliberate judgment.”
Aubrey Stewart 译,1889 年
“把一切冤屈和侮辱从自己身上弹回去,就像穿着刀枪不入的铠甲,这要光荣得多;因为报复就等于承认我们受了伤。”
AI 把这份 1889 年的译文改写成了今天的英语。改动的只是措辞:每一处改写都与原文核对过,以保留其确切含义。
“How far more glorious is it to throw back all wrongs and insults from oneself, like one wearing armour of proof against all weapons, for revenge is an admission that we have been hurt.”
Aubrey Stewart 译,1889 年
“我们所有的感官都应当被训练得坚强:它们天生就能忍受很多,只要心灵不去惯坏它们。”
AI 把这份 1889 年的译文改写成了今天的英语。改动的只是措辞:每一处改写都与原文核对过,以保留其确切含义。
“All our senses should be educated into strength: they are naturally able to endure much, provided that the spirit forbears to spoil them.”
Aubrey Stewart 译,1889 年
“的确,许多人慷慨,是因为不够坚定。”
AI 把这份 1887 年的译文改写成了今天的英语。改动的只是措辞:每一处改写都与原文核对过,以保留其确切含义。
“Indeed, many men are made generous by want of firmness.”
Aubrey Stewart 译,1887 年
“如果我们总从反面去看恩惠,就永远不会缺少抱怨的理由。”
AI 把这份 1887 年的译文改写成了今天的英语。改动的只是措辞:每一处改写都与原文核对过,以保留其确切含义。
“We shall never want a subject for complaint if we look at benefits on their wrong side.”
Aubrey Stewart 译,1887 年
“没有人能同时既嫉妒又感恩,因为嫉妒的人爱抱怨、心情忧郁,而感恩的人满心喜悦。”
AI 把这份 1887 年的译文改写成了今天的英语。改动的只是措辞:每一处改写都与原文核对过,以保留其确切含义。
“Now no one can at the same time be both jealous and grateful, because those who are jealous are querulous and sad, while the grateful are joyous.”
Aubrey Stewart 译,1887 年
“任何事都不应当没有理由就去做:一份恩惠若是无缘无故给予的,就算不上真正的恩惠,因为一切高尚的行为都伴随着理性。”
AI 把这份 1887 年的译文改写成了今天的英语。改动的只是措辞:每一处改写都与原文核对过,以保留其确切含义。
“Nothing ought to be done without a reason: a benefit is not truly so, if it be bestowed without a reason, since reason accompanies all honorable action.”
Aubrey Stewart 译,1887 年
“我们若不依靠彼此间的相互帮助,又能依靠什么来求得安全呢?”
AI 把这份 1887 年的译文改写成了今天的英语。改动的只是措辞:每一处改写都与原文核对过,以保留其确切含义。
“To what do we trust for safety, if not in mutual good offices one to another?”
Aubrey Stewart 译,1887 年
“为了施惠于好人而连坏人也一并施惠,胜过因怕施惠于坏人而对好人给得太少。”
AI 把这份 1887 年的译文改写成了今天的英语。改动的只是措辞:每一处改写都与原文核对过,以保留其确切含义。
“It is better to benefit the bad as well, for the sake of benefiting the good, than to stint the good for fear of benefiting the bad.”
Aubrey Stewart 译,1887 年
“没有人被机运抬得如此之高,以至于不需要朋友;恰恰因为他什么都不缺,他才更需要朋友。”
AI 把这份 1887 年的译文改写成了今天的英语。改动的只是措辞:每一处改写都与原文核对过,以保留其确切含义。
“There is no one so highly placed by fortune as not to want a friend all the more because he wants nothing.”
Aubrey Stewart 译,1887 年
“人应当不偏不倚,不被外物征服:他应当只钦佩自己,信赖自己的精神,并这样安排自己的生活:无论好运还是厄运,都同样有所准备。”
AI 把这份 1889 年的译文改写成了今天的英语。改动的只是措辞:每一处改写都与原文核对过,以保留其确切含义。
“A man should be unbiassed and not to be conquered by external things: he ought to admire himself alone, to feel confidence in his own spirit, and so to order his life as to be ready alike for good or for bad fortune.”
Aubrey Stewart 译,1889 年
“那么,你尽可以大胆宣称:至善就是心灵的专一;因为哪里有和谐与统一,哪里就必定有美德;彼此交战的,是种种恶习。”
AI 把这份 1889 年的译文改写成了今天的英语。改动的只是措辞:每一处改写都与原文核对过,以保留其确切含义。
“You may, then, boldly declare that the highest good is singleness of mind: for where agreement and unity are, there must the virtues be: it is the vices that are at war one with another.”
Aubrey Stewart 译,1889 年
“简而言之,我的财富属于我,而你属于你的财富。”
AI 把这份 1889 年的译文改写成了今天的英语。改动的只是措辞:每一处改写都与原文核对过,以保留其确切含义。
“In fine, my riches belong to me, you belong to your riches.”
Aubrey Stewart 译,1889 年
“在生活的每一种处境中,你都能找到消遣、放松与乐趣;前提是,你愿意看轻坏事,而不是憎恨它们。”
AI 把这份 1889 年的译文改写成了今天的英语。改动的只是措辞:每一处改写都与原文核对过,以保留其确切含义。
“In every station of life you will find amusements, relaxations, and enjoyments; that is, provided you be willing to make light of evils rather than to hate them.”
Aubrey Stewart 译,1889 年
“从未中断的顺境经不起一次打击;而一个不断与自己的不幸抗争的人,在苦难中磨出了更厚的皮,不向任何灾祸屈服,即使跌倒了,也会跪着继续战斗。”
AI 把这份 1889 年的译文改写成了今天的英语。改动的只是措辞:每一处改写都与原文核对过,以保留其确切含义。
“Unbroken prosperity cannot bear a single blow; but he who has waged an unceasing strife with his misfortunes has gained a thicker skin by his sufferings, yields to no disaster, and even though he fall yet fights on his knee.”
Aubrey Stewart 译,1889 年
“习惯已经化为天性的东西,便没有什么不幸可言:起初迫于必要才做的事,人们渐渐也会从中找到乐趣。”
AI 把这份 1889 年的译文改写成了今天的英语。改动的只是措辞:每一处改写都与原文核对过,以保留其确切含义。
“There is no unhappiness in what use has made part of one’s nature: by degrees men find pleasure in doing what they were first driven to do by necessity.”
Aubrey Stewart 译,1889 年
“好人彼此和睦相处;坏人则对好人和对彼此同样有害。”
AI 把这份 1889 年的译文改写成了今天的英语。改动的只是措辞:每一处改写都与原文核对过,以保留其确切含义。
“Good men are at peace among themselves; bad ones are equally mischievous to the good and to one another.”
Aubrey Stewart 译,1889 年
“一个人的剑缠在受害者的衣服里没有刺中,他也照样是强盗。”
AI 把这份 1889 年的译文改写成了今天的英语。改动的只是措辞:每一处改写都与原文核对过,以保留其确切含义。
“A man is no less a brigand because his sword becomes entangled in his victim’s clothes and misses its mark.”
Aubrey Stewart 译,1889 年