Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

  • -- Horace 贺拉斯

通常谦虚的人被认为是矜持的人,沉默的人被认为是阴沉的人。

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If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

如果一个作家在评价自己的作品时需要谦虚和坦率,那么他的读者也同样需要谦虚和坦率。

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

一个人谦虚是容易的,但当一个人是无名小卒时,谦虚就很难了。