The thought is, roughly, weigh up the pleasures and pains in some appropriate way.

只需大约衡量一下,快乐和痛苦。

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What is the heart but a spring, ?" or reason but a means of calculating pleasures and pains."

除了跳动，心脏又为何物，除了感觉愉快和痛苦，人为什么而活“

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You can't just add up all the pleasures and subtract the pains, or add up all the accomplishments and subtract the failures, or add up all the knowledge and subtract the ignorance and deception.

你不能只是把快乐加起来然后减去痛苦，或者仅是把成功相加再减去失败，或者把学问相加再减去蒙昧和欺骗。

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There you are at the pearly gates and you look back on your life and you could, in principle, add up all the pleasures, add up all the pains, subtract the pains from the pleasures and ask yourself, "How good a life did I have?

当你站在天堂门口回顾一生时,你可以，在原则上，累加所有快乐，累加所有痛苦，从快乐中减去痛苦然后问自己，“我的一生到底有多好？

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