There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

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

一个人要想成为真正的好人,最好的证据莫过于他希望经常受到好人的监视。

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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

与我对自己房间的了解相比,我的自知之明是多么可怜地贫乏。没有像观察外部世界那样观察内部世界的事情。

Even when one is doing well, one still worries that things might go badly again in the future. This is an old observation based on human experience.

即使一个人做得很好,他仍然担心将来事情可能会再次变得糟糕。这是一个基于人类经验的古老观察。

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right.

有多少悲观主义者为了证明自己是对的,最终渴望得到他们所害怕的东西。

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

美德不在于戒除恶习,而在于不渴求恶习。