Nature has indeed given you an irresistible self-love, and an unalienable right of self-preservation; but I create in you a contrary sentiment, an heroic hatred of yourselves.

自爱的本能和自我保护的权利实为自然的赐予，但我赐予你们一种不同的情感——一种英雄般的自我鄙弃。

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If it consists in anything, then I think that happiness is this feeling of existence, this sentiment of momentary self-sufficiency that is bound up with the experience of time.

即使快乐真的存在于某种事物中，我认为这应当是一种存在感，一种因时间感而产生的瞬间的自我满足。

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The sentiment is the various forms of self love.

感情不过是多种形式的自爱。

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The availability of labour and land has fallen, domestic capital is abundant, the local market is now understood to be among the most attractive in the world and sentiment has become more nationalistic and self-satisfied.

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What gives this sentiment a particularly distasteful feel is that we are being lectured on self-responsibility by men and women who wear designer suits on television, and are worth millions of dollars.

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That is fine as a sentiment, but presumably any employer of repute already knows that as a simple matter of self-interest.

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