To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.

  • -- Tryon Edwards 特赖恩·爱德华兹

为别人的富裕而高兴,就是满足于自己的命运;减轻别人的悲伤就是减轻或驱散自己的悲伤。

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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

没有一种紧缩等于平衡的思想,也没有一种幸福等于满足;没有一种疾病比得上贪婪,也没有一种美德比得上仁慈。

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

真正的满足和农业一样活跃。它是一种力量,可以使你摆脱任何困境。这是艰巨的,也是罕见的。

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

在繁荣的睡梦中激起恐怖的梦,已成为文学的道德责任。

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

顺境的日子,你当喜乐;患难的日子,你当思想。