Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure,
when he is really selling himself a slave to it.
许多人自以为买到了快乐,实则已成为它的奴隶。
Craft must at charge for clothes, but
truth can go naked.
诡计必须穿上外衣,但真理却可以裸体。
Knaves and nettles are akin; stroak,em
kindly, yet they,ll sting.
无赖和荨麻,你轻摸也要被扎。
Ambition often spends foolishly what
avarice had wickedly collected.
贪婪不择手段地收集起来的东西,常被野心愚蠢地耗去。
(摘自《格言篇》富兰克林著
刘荣跃编译) |