Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

  • -- George Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

在所有的美德中选择沉默,因为它能让你听到别人的缺点,并掩盖你自己的缺点。

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

这种自爱是我们保存的工具;它类似于对人类永生的规定:它是必要的,它是我们所珍视的,它给我们带来快乐,我们必须隐藏它。

Silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grow pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

沉默不是故事的自然环境。他们需要的话。没有他们,他们变得苍白,生病和死亡。然后他们缠着你。

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

沉默是朋友间真正的对话。重要的不是说,而是永远不需要说。

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

戏剧性的是,隐藏而不是揭露总是更有趣。