We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

  • -- William Penn 威廉·佩恩

我们倾向于喜欢赞美,但却不配。但如果我们想要得到它,我们必须更爱美德。

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Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them anymore. Or, they are strays who've been on their own without the loving care they deserve.

收养的宠物是你能养的最好的宠物。大多数可收养的宠物来自充满爱心的家庭,而这些家庭根本无法再照顾它们。或者,他们是孤独的流浪狗,没有得到应有的关爱。

You read stuff and see stuff where people are calling me (names) and that I was trying to cheat and this and that. I don't know what I did to deserve that.

你读到一些东西,看到一些人在叫我的名字,说我试图作弊,等等。我不知道我做了什么该受的。

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

每个年轻人都应该牢记,所有成功的事业都是建立在道德基础上的。

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

如果你谦卑,没有什么能打动你,无论是赞扬还是羞辱,因为你知道你是谁。

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

幸福是通过美德获得的;这是人的意志所能达到的善。

I wish I could read people's minds... even if that would hurt me in the end.

我希望我能读懂人们的心思……即使那最终会伤害到我。

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

从值得赞美的人那里得到赞美,是一种无比的快乐。

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

一切美德都可以归结为公正待人。