It's about chipping away our ability for success, because maybe we are afraid of success.

凿除胜利的能力，因为我们可能害怕胜利。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Then the duke judged that such excessive authority was not necessary, because he feared it might become hateful and he set up a sort of a civil court in the middle of the province with the most excellent president where each city had its advocate.

然后君王判断,这样过度的威信是不需要的，因为他害怕那可能会变成仇恨,他在该省区中心,设立了一个类民事法庭,并派出最优秀的大臣,让每一座城都有自己的律师。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Because,indeed,they don't exist They're merely possible And we might say,you've got to exist in order for something to be bad for you But once we say that it seems we're running towards the position that in that case,death can't be bad for me because of course,when I'm dead,I don't exist ? So how can anything be bad for me?

因为他们其实并不存在,他们只是一种可能,我们由此认为你必须首先存在,某事才会让你害怕,但我们一旦这么说,我们似乎会得出这个结论,这种情况下死亡不可能让我害怕,因为我死了就不存在了,所以我怎么会害怕？

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