1、什么是宽容?宽容是人性的附属物。我们满是弱点和错误,让我们为我们的愚蠢互相原谅吧。 ----《自由主义的两张面孔》
2、It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
3、You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
4、Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. ----《论婚姻》
8、Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. 生活是条沉船,但我们不要忘了在救生艇上高歌。
9、Each player must accept the cards life deals him.
But once they are in hand, he alone must decide
how to play the cards in order to win the game.
11、自私是永远存在的 “Selfishness is always there."
12、Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. ----《老实人》
13、Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
15、外表的美只能取悦于人的眼睛,而内在的美却能感染人的灵魂
19、Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
21、先生,我收到了你反对人类的新著,我感谢你。没有人会动用如此心力来教唆人类返回动物状态。读尊著,使人渴慕四脚爬行。谢天谢地,我遗忘这种习惯已经六十多年了。 ----《驳卢梭“论人类不平等的起源和基础”》
22、做一个惹人厌烦的人的秘诀就是告诉别人一切。
25、The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
26、爱情好比鼓动的风,有时大风大浪,全舟覆没;但没有风,船又不能行动。胆汁使人愤怒,使人得病;但没有又不能活命。世界上没有一件东西不危险,又没有一样东西少的了。
27、He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.