The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

一个人应该有一个严肃的信念,那就是什么事都不要太认真。

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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

我现在生活的全部信念都建立在这样一种信念之上:孤独远非我和其他几个孤独的人所特有的一种罕见而奇特的现象,而是人类存在的中心和不可避免的事实。

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

要正确地判断一个人或一件事,在说出他的缺点之前先看看他的优点是有用的,不,是必不可少的。

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

没有经验的信念导致严酷。

An orator is a good man, skilled in speaking.

演说家是一个善于演讲的好人。