PLEASURES

快樂
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Aristotle

歡愉易逝，當惜別時情。
'Pleasure' and 'joy' not only are not synonymous, but may be as profoundly different as heaven and hell.

Sidney J. Harris

『快樂』與『喜悅』，雖一字之差，其間蘊含的意境卻深不可測，宛如天堂與地獄的對比。
The Christian tastes God in all his pleasures.

J. I. Packer

基督徒在一切愉悅中都能感受到上帝同在的喜樂。
That this world is a playground instead of a battle field has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of fundamentalist Christians.

A. W. Tozer

福音派基督徒日益體認到，神創造的世界是一個恩典之地，而非爭戰之地，這已成為他們的普遍共識。
Soft pleasures harden the heart.

Thomas Watson

過度的愉悅，易使人心變得麻木。
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

隨便寫寫的東西，一般來說讀起來也不怎麼有趣。
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

夫妻倆一起吃個早餐，看似很平常，但其實很多人都做不到。
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

快樂不需要花大錢，最簡單的快樂才是最真實的。
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

切勿為一時之樂所惑，應深入探究其背後之真相。
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

Charles Buxton

欲使歡愉長存，須令其短暫。
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick The Great

人生至高無上的樂趣，莫過於發現新知，其次則是摒棄舊有的偏見。
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

讀書是最便宜又最長久的娛樂。
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Tyron Edwards

罪惡的享樂，猶如毒麵包，雖能一時滿足口腹之慾，終將招致死亡。
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Ovid

世間無絕對的歡愉，憂慮常隨其後。