If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

  • -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格

如果这一切都失败了,那么一个人的性格就只能通过他所不善于接受的一个笑话来确定了。

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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

有天才的人不能很快地判断人的品性。深刻的思考和高度的想象冲淡了我们判断人的那种琐碎的本能。

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

世界上没有一个人从他自己的经历中知道他是怎样和在哪里出生的,只有从传统中才知道,而传统往往是非常不确定的。

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

人总是超出他对自己的了解;因此,他的成就,一次又一次,会让他感到惊讶。

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

高尔夫球的突然成功就像财富的突然获得。它容易使性格不安和恶化。