在理想的自我和现实的自我之间的距离是何等的大！

◆ 你造我们是为了你，我们的心如不安息在你怀中，便不会安宁。

You have made us for yourself and our heart is restless until it finds rest in you .

◆ 相信是思考和同意。

To believe is to think with assent.

◆ 我所理解的东西，我也相信它；但我所相信的，我不一定都能够理解。

What I understand, I believe; but I do not understand everything I believe.

◆ 如果你理解(它)，这就不是上主。

If you understand it, it is not God.

◆ 你应该理解为了得到信仰，应该相信为了获得更好的理解。

Understand so that you can believe, believe, so that you can understand!

◆ 就我而言，在(理想的)自我和(现实的)自我之间的距离是何等的大!

How great is the difference between my [ideal] self and my [real] self!

◆ 然而，你比我最深之处更深，比我最高之处更高。

Yet you were deeper than my inmost understanding and higher than the topmost height that I could reach.

◆ 别去外面！回到你内心去；真理居住在内在的人，而如果你发现你的本性是变化无常的，你应该超越你自己。

Don’t go out! Go back into yourself; the truth dwells in the inner man, and if you should see that your nature is changing, then even transcend yourself.

◆ 恶不存在，它只是善的缺乏。

Evil does not exist, it is a deprivation of goodness.

◆ 在爱内你可以随意行事。

Love and do as you like.

◆ 和平是秩序中的安宁。

The peace of all things lies in the tranquillity of order.

◆ 唯独良好的动机和爱好造成良好的道德。

Only good motives make good habits.

◆ 人应该唯独在上主内享受。人应该“使用”变化无常的事物；应该“享受”不可变的事物。

Only in God one should rejoice. Temporal things should be “used”; eternal things should be “enjoyed”. 

◆ 在不明确中自由，在必要中合一，在一切中博爱。

In doubt freedom, in the necessary things unity, in all things love.

[本文摘编自《古希腊罗马及教父时期名著名言辞典》]

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