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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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

没有什么比轻蔑更让人不耐烦,更让人难以原谅的了。

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

在外表上是那么辉煌,那么虚荣;这只不过是一块没有大脑的镀金的石头。

The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.

我经常拿自己开玩笑,说我很自私,但我不虚荣。

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

最好的报复就是不像那个造成伤害的人。