We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  • -- Walter Savage Landor 兰德

我们常常以为自己是忘恩负义,而实际上我们是自爱。

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Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about.

许多人设想了从未在现实中出现过或知道存在过的共和国和君主国;因为我们所行的与所当行的相距甚远,那弃绝已经行的,只取应该行的,反倒要成就。

Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.

每当我有一种奇特的想法,认为我在做任何事情,而不是单纯的表达,事情就会开始出错。当我过于深思熟虑时,事情就开始出错。我只是把那部分大脑关闭了。

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

大多数人以忘恩负义的方式回报小恩惠,承认小恩惠,回报大恩惠。

Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine.

无论是出于怜悯,还是出于愤怒,神都不承认金银。

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

有一种倾向是在承认一切事实之前先寻求对其客观的解释。

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

我们以为自己是忘恩负义,其实是自爱。

I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

我喜欢讲故事,这是我把故事写在纸上的方式。

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

束缚我们想象力的翅膀,限制它的飞翔,这是很好的。

Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.

你一定很好,因为我一直没收到你的消息。

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

嫉妒包含的自爱多于爱。