But he thought that it should be channeled through state obligations, be there taxes or labor duties.

他认为为国尽忠就应该,通过缴税或者服劳役来履行国家义务

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He was not against the church, but he thought that people were wasting time being monks, and other people were all over the place in their Russian Orthodox equivalent.

他并不反对东正教,但他认为人们当僧侣,简直就是浪费时间,所有的人在东正教堂里都是地位平等的

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He didn't actually convince me of that, but suppose we thought souls are simple, and we think simple things can't split.

他并没有说服我，但让我们假设灵魂就是简单的，并且简单的东西无法被分裂。

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but he's also insisting that this is an incredibly difficult, if not impossible, moment of thought.

但他同时坚持，如果可能，这对思维来说也是一个极其艰难的时刻。

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He didn't mention the name because, I assume, he thought everyone knew this was Blanc; but Marx was falsely attributed to having made that statement.

我猜他之所以没有提及原作者是因为，他认为大家都知道这句话的出处;,但由此马克思却被误认为,是那句话的原作者。

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We don't know precisely what Plato thought, but we are helped, at least, by a kind of intellectual autobiography that he wrote and that we still have, in what is " conventionally referred to as The Seventh Letter.

我们无法确切明了柏拉图的想法，但至少我们能透过,某种理智的自传找到线索,我们仍握有他亲笔所写的书信,即一般所指的，“第七书信。

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But he believed that it was important to take the tools of science, to take the tools of rational thought and apply them to the good of the state, even if you saw that good of the state as in ships that could lob cannonballs even further against hostile ships, and that kind of thing.

但他同时还认为,借助利用科学和理性的工具,来为国家利益服务也是非常重要的,即使你所看到的所谓"国家利益",只是军舰上的炮弹能比敌舰射得更远,或者其他诸如此类的东西

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