We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

  • -- Honoré de Balzac 尊敬的巴尔扎克

我们把不幸和幸福都夸大了。我们从来没有像自己说的那么穷,也从来没有像自己说的那么幸福。

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It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

快乐需要极大的智慧、兴趣和精力。追求幸福是一项伟大的活动。一个人必须是开放的,充满活力的。这是人类必须完成的最伟大的壮举。

I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy.

我从来没有想过我会变得多么富有。我有很多同龄人认为这是他们的抱负,但我不知道有多少人是快乐的。

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

我总是对自己的写作方式非常坦率,而且我总是使用幽默作家使用的工具,比如夸张。

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

我们受到那些我们所影响的人的影响的程度是难以夸大的。

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

因为在患难中不毁谤神、乃是智慧正直人的豫兆。

My soul feels reborn each time I see you; falling in love with you again and again.

每次见到你,我的灵魂都感到重生;一次又一次的爱上你。

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

小小的心灵会被不幸驯服和征服;但伟大的思想高于它们。

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

我们最低估的责任莫过于快乐的责任。

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

毫不夸张地说,我是个少年犯。