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Writers of every age have endeavored to show that pleasure is in us, and not in the objects offered for our amusement.
每個時代的作家都熱衷于描繪潛藏在我們內心的快樂，而不是用于取樂的對象。
If the soul be happily disposed, everything becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
如果內心得到快樂，那么所有的一切都能提供愉悅感，而痛苦幾乎是個空名而已。
Every occurrence passes in review, like the figures of a procession;
每一個事件都在回顧中成為過去，就像列隊行進隊伍中人的形象一樣。
some may be awkward, others ill-dressed, but none but a fool is on that account enraged with the master of ceremonies.
有的人也許顯得有點笨拙，其他人則穿著寒酸，不過除了傻瓜沒有人會因為這個緣故而對儀式的主持者大發雷霆。
I remember to have once seen a slave, in a fortification in Flanders, who appeared no way touched with his situation.
記得在佛蘭德斯的一個筑壘里曾見過一個苦工，顯然他無從感知自己的境遇，
He was maimed, deformed, and chained; obliged to toil from the appearance of day till nightfall, and condemned to this for life;
他身有殘疾，容貌丑陋，腳上裹著鐵鏈，從天一亮到夜幕降臨被迫一刻不停地做工，一直到死為止。
yet, with all these circumstances of apparent wretchedness, he sang, would have danced,
然而，對于所有這些顯然非常惡劣的環境，他竟然樂天知命，
but that he wanted a leg, and appeared the merriest, happiest man of all the garrison.
他想要的就是一條健全的腿，似乎是整個要塞最快樂和幸福的人。
What a practical philosopher was here!
他是一位何等現實的哲學家??！
A happy constitution supplied philosophy, and though seemingly destitute of wisdom he was really wise.
從他快樂的心理素質能洞察到他的人生哲學，盡管表面上缺少智慧，其實他是真正睿智的人。
No reading or study had contributed to disenchant the fairyland around him.
不讀書和學習促使他對仙境般的生活不抱任何幻想。
