A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

  • -- Elbert Hubbard 埃尔伯特·哈伯德

记忆力也许是一件好事,但是忘记的能力才是伟大的真正标志。

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When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

当一切都发生在你年轻的时候,你很幸运,但同样的道理,你再也不会有同样的感觉了。任何事情发生在你身上的第一次——你的初恋,你的第一次成功——第二次是不一样的。

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

除非你选择用它来做伟大的事情,否则你得到多少奖励或你拥有多少权力都没有关系。

The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.

人的伟大美德在于能够改正自己的错误,不断地改造自己。

A man should be respected more for what he has made of himself than for what he is.

一个人应该被尊重更多的是他对自己的成就,而不是他的本来面目。

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

权力是为他人做好事的能力。