Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

  • -- Ayn Rand 艾恩·兰德

平庸并不意味着平均智力,它意味着憎恨和嫉妒比自己优秀的人的平均智力。

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I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.

我从来就不太了解这些演员——尽管有时我很羡慕他们——他们能在外面躺一两年。我觉得时间是一个非常紧迫的问题,我想在剩下的时间里完成尽可能多的工作。

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

宽恕和被宽恕所带来的难以言喻的喜悦使人心醉神迷,很可能会引起众神的嫉妒。

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

有些人生来平庸,有些人成就平庸,而有些人却被迫平庸。

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

美德被定义为平庸,其中任何一个极端都是罪恶。