Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

  • -- Eric Hoffer 埃里克·霍弗

人是唯一努力超越自己,渴望不可能的事物的生物。

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The imitator is a poor kind of creature. If the man who paints only the tree, or a flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer.

模仿者是一种可怜的动物。如果只画眼前的树、花或其他表面的人是艺术家,那么艺术家之王就是摄影师。

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

他抬起眼睛,注视着主人的目光,注视着人类的欢乐、安慰和援助;富人的保护人,穷人的朋友,唯一至死不渝的忠贞不渝的人。

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

如果一个人郁郁寡欢,就由他自己去好了。没有人有权利在社会上大声疾呼,更糟糕的是,他看起来像是在压抑悲伤。

There is no impossible love. Only people incapable of fighthing for what they call love.

没有不可能的爱。只有那些没有能力为他们所谓的爱而战的人。

You cannot take a cow from a man who has none.

你不能从一个没有母牛的人那里得到一头母牛。

He conquers who conquers himself.

只有战胜自己的人才能战胜自己。