Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
大卫·休谟
西方哲学历史中最重要的人物之一

大卫·休谟(David Hume,公元1711年4月26日—公元1776年8月25日),苏格兰不可知论哲学家、经济学家、历史学家,被视为是苏格兰启蒙运动以及西方哲学历史中最重要的人物之一。

交换、交易和互换的倾向普遍存在于所有人之中,而在其他动物种族中找不到。

The propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

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 劳动分工受市场规模的限制。

The division of labor is limited by the extent of the market.

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每个人对自己劳动的产权既是所有其他产权的最初基础,也是最神圣和不可侵犯的。

The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.

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人是一种做交易的动物,没有其他动物会这样做,没有狗会和另一只狗交换骨头。

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this no dog exchanges bones with another.

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 金钱都是一种信仰问题。

All money is a matter of belief.

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每个个体改善自身状况的自然努力,当在自由和安全的情况下得以发挥时,是如此强大,以至于它不仅能够独自,不受任何协助,推动社会走向富裕和繁荣,而且能够克服往往由愚蠢的人类法律造成的百般妨碍。

The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

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 试图指导私人如何使用他们的资本的政治家,不仅会使自己背负起极不必要的责任,还会行使一种权力,它不能被信任交给任何单个个体,甚至不能被信任交给任何理事会或议会,而且这种权力在愚蠢和自负到足以自认为有资格行使它的人手中最为危险。

The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.

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劳动分工在尽可能程度上引入,在每一门艺术中都会导致劳动生产力的相应增加。

The division of labour, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour.

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同行很少聚在一起,即使是为了娱乐,谈话最终都会以反对公众的阴谋或提高价格的某种策划而结束。

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

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要将一个国家从最低级的野蛮状态带到最高度的富裕,所需的几乎只有和平、低税收和较为合理的司法管理。

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice.

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

事物的美在于欣赏它们的心灵。

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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

理性是,也应该只是激情的奴隶,永远不能假装具有其他职责,而只能用于服务和服从它们。

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Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.

风俗习惯是人类生活的重要指南。

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No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

没有证词足以证明奇迹,除非这证词的假设比它试图证明的事实更为奇迹。

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Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

相较于挠一下我的手指,毁灭整个世界并不违反理智。

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When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

当人们最确信自己并充满傲慢时,通常最容易犯错误,情感主导了他们的判断,没有经过恰当的审慎,而只有审慎才能使他们远离最荒谬的错误。

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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

明智的人会将自己的信仰与证据相协调。

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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

人的生命对宇宙而言并不比牡蛎的生命更重要。

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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

没有什么比多数人容易被少数人统治更令人惊讶的了。

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The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

道德规则不是我们理性的结论。

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To be a slave in this world is very different from being a slave in another.

在这个世界上做奴隶与在另一个世界上做奴隶是截然不同的。

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