We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

  • -- Edward Gibbon 爱德华·吉本

我们通过战胜自己来提高自己。必须有竞争,我们必须赢。

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Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

通过最广泛意义上的艺术和科学,有可能为改善和丰富人类生活作出永久的贡献,而我们学生从事的正是这些追求。

Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character, and usually an improvement in your life.

作为一个人,你能生存下来的任何磨难都是你性格上的进步,通常也是生活上的进步。

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

我们不能让自己偏离轨道,不管发生什么,我们必须坚持我们的自然游戏。

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

生活在昨天的梦里,我们发现自己仍然梦想着未来不可能的征服。

Sometimes the smallest victories in life are more rewarding than the greatest milestones.

有时候,生活中最小的胜利比最大的里程碑更有意义。

You can't own your victories if you won't admit your failures.

如果你不承认你的失败,你就不能拥有你的胜利。