Philosophy should be an energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition of man.

哲学应是一种能量，它的努力方向应是有效地改善人类。

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He himself was a man of little means and of poor health, given which it is perhaps unsurprising that central to his philosophy were both prudence and temperance.

他本人是一个略有财产而健康状况不佳的人，或许他的哲学以审慎和节制为主就不令人吃惊了。

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If a man delights in his wife and children, has success in work, and finds pleasure in the alternation of day and night, spring and autumn, he will be happy whatever his philosophy may be.

如果一个人家庭和睦，事业有成，并且从昼夜交替和春秋轮回中也得获得快乐，那么不管他的人生哲学如何，他都会感到幸福。

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Malthusianism is, indeed, the philosophy of the bug heap, of man as devouring swarm rather than ennobling angel.

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