The true ruler is the person who both acts on his own interest and of course knows what those interests are.

真正的统治者,仅干对自身有利的事,而且知道有哪些利益对他有好处。

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And if our only questions, ? or primarily our questions are "what is not working?

如果我们只问同一类问题，或只是问“有哪些不如意的事？

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What kind of surprises did you find when you did this?

大家在此过程中发现了哪些不可思议的事

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We add up the goods, subtract the bads-- whatever our favorite list is-- and we come to our best educated guess about the rival evaluations of not just lives as a whole, but chunks of lives.

我们把好事加起来减去坏事-,不管我们最喜欢哪些事-,我们不但可以据理推测,一生期间其他生活的价值，还能推测某段时间其他生活的价值。

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