Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

  • -- Tacitus 塔西托斯

成功是美德的标准或试金石,因为忍受不幸比不被快乐腐蚀要容易得多。

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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

没有什么比在任何情况下都保持冷静沉着更能给一个人带来优势了。

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

让我们振作起来,记住最难忍受的不幸是那些永远不会到来的不幸。

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

除了自负,我们可以忍受被剥夺一切。

Never make someone your priority if you remain their option.

如果你仍然是他们的选择,永远不要把别人放在首位。