To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
卢梭
启蒙运动代表人物之一

让-雅克·卢梭(Jean-Jacques Rousseau,1712年6月28日—1778年7月2日),法国十八世纪启蒙思想家、哲学家、教育家、文学家,民主政论家和浪漫主义文学流派的开创者,启蒙运动代表人物之一。主要著作有《论人类不平等的起源和基础》《社会契约论》《爱弥儿》《忏悔录》《新爱洛伊丝》《植物学通信》等。

Freedom can only be given to one who loves it, and the rest is for slaves.

只有热爱自由的人才能拥有自由,其余都是奴隶。

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Man is good by nature, society corrupts him.

人性本善,社会使其败坏。

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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master unless he transforms strength into right and obedience into duty.

最强大的人永远不足以始终成为主宰,除非他将力量转化为权利,将服从转化为义务。

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We are all bound by the social contract to obey the laws, but we also have the right to participate in making those laws.

我们都受社会契约的约束,须遵守法律,但我们也有权参与制定这些法律。

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To live outside the law, you must be honest.

要违背法律,你必须诚实。

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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.

第一个将一块土地围起来并说‘这是我的’,并找到足够简单的人相信他的人,就是文明社会的真正创始人。

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Man is so much the voice of his interest that it is not enough to make him see the right, but you must make him feel it.

人很容易被自己的利益驱使,仅仅让他看到正确是不够的,还必须让他感受到它。

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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

还有什么智慧比善良更伟大?

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Man is the artisan of his own happiness.

人是自己幸福的工匠。

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I cannot but be astonished that Socrates, after having so often repeated to his fellow citizens that he did not pretend to any wisdom, but had been appointed by the gods to a mission of benevolence towards them, should have been condemned to death.

我不禁感到惊讶,苏格拉底在多次告诉他的同胞,他不自诩有智慧,而是被神任命为向他们传递善意的使命,竟然被判处死刑。

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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

要写一封好的情书,你应该在不知道要说什么的情况下开始写,然后在不知道自己写了什么的情况下结束。

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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

我们越爱我们的朋友,就越少奉承他们;纯粹的爱表现在毫不包庇的态度。

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The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

通往哲学的第一步是怀疑。

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Freedom is not the power to do what we want, but the right to do what we ought.

自由不是做我们想做的事情的权力,而是做我们应该做的事情的权利。

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人生而自由,却无时无刻不被束缚。

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

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只有热爱自由的人才能拥有自由,其余都是奴隶。

Freedom can only be given to one who loves it, and the rest is for slaves.

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人性本善,社会使其败坏。

Man is good by nature, society corrupts him.

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最强大的人永远不足以始终成为主宰,除非他将力量转化为权利,将服从转化为义务。

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master unless he transforms strength into right and obedience into duty.

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我宁愿自由伴随危险,也不愿和平伴随奴役。

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.

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我们都受社会契约的约束,须遵守法律,但我们也有权参与制定这些法律。

We are all bound by the social contract to obey the laws, but we also have the right to participate in making those laws.

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要违背法律,你必须诚实。

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

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