The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

想要谈论自己,想要表现出那些我们不介意看到的缺点,这构成了我们真诚的很大一部分。

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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

我们的敌人是我们的恶行和他们的记忆、我们的骄傲、我们的自私、我们的恶意、我们的激情,这些都是我们的良知或习惯无情地追逐着我们,无情地超越了形象所能表达的力量。

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

我们所看见的,不是极近处的一个小斑点,能涂抹世界的荣耀,只留下我们看见那斑点的余地吗?我不知道有什么比自我更麻烦的了。

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

真诚并不总是真实的;相反,错误往往比真理更为严重。

Examine well the counsel that favours your desire.

仔细研究那些对你有利的建议。