We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

如果全世界都能看到产生这些行为的所有动机,我们常常会为自己的最佳行为感到羞耻。

相关名言

A life lived of choice is a life if conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

选择的生活是有意识行动的生活。充满机遇的生活是无意识创造的生活。

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

有时候,一个积极的政策最好是在合适的时间之前什么都不做,或者永远不做。

The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.

我演过的最好的喜剧是当人们不知道我是谁的时候。

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

我们谈原则,但按动机行事。