It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

  • -- Epictetus 埃皮克特斯

辱骂你们的,不是那辱骂你们的,也不是那击打你们的,乃是你们以为这些事是羞辱人的。

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A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

朋友应该是这样的人:我们可以同样信任他的理解和美德,我们可以立即重视他的公正和真诚的意见。

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

因为一个人是黑人而喜欢他,就像因为他不是白人而不喜欢他一样无礼。

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

人们似乎没有看到,他们对世界的看法也是一种性格的表白。

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.

问剧作家他对自己剧本的看法是很无礼的。我没有意见。