Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

  • -- Charles De Talleyrand Perigord 查尔斯·德塔雷兰德·佩里戈尔

一个人的名誉就像一个影子,它在你之前是巨大的,在它之后是渺小的。

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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

我觉得有时候我的幽默非常枯燥,很多时候我会说一些我认为很有趣的事情,但是……我有一个名声——人们认为我是一个非常原教旨主义者,缺乏幽默感的人。

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

为幸福而追求幸福,你不会找到它;追求责任,幸福就会随着阳光而来。

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

我不需要一个随我改变而改变,随我点头而点头的朋友;我的影子做得更好。

My reputation grows with every failure.

我的声誉随着每一次失败而增长。