An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

  • -- William Hazlitt 威廉·哈兹里特

诚实的人讲真话,虽然这可能会冒犯别人;一个虚荣的人,为了它可以。

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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

对任何青年来说,最大的伤害莫过于让他感到,因为他属于这个或那个种族,无论他自己的功绩或努力如何,他都会在生活中获得进步。

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

我们在这里的快乐都是虚空的荣耀,这虚假的世界不过是暂时的。

Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts, Old age is slow in both.

年轻人易施于人,也易忘于人之辱,两者老来不易。

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

做一个人自己的傻瓜已经够糟了,但是虚荣的人却是每个人的。