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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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

每件大事都有一种神圣的恐怖。人们很容易赞美平庸和山丘;但是,无论什么东西太崇高,一个天才和一座山,一个集会和一个杰作,如果看得太近,都是令人震惊的。

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

嫉妒像虫子一样,只会爬向最美丽的果实;就像一只狡猾的侦探犬,它把羊群中最肥的鹿挑出来。

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

最重要的是,你必须与你内心的自负、嫉妒和各种不良情绪作斗争。

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

我所做的一切都是因为害怕平庸。