If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

如果我们内心没有安宁,那么从外部寻求安宁是徒劳的。

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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

在我们现代诗歌的总体基调中,有一种对外在事物的表现力的非常亲密的感觉,这种感觉在思考、倾听、渗透,而较早的、较不发达的意识却轻易地从这种感觉中消失了。

The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.

有证据表明中亚是人类最初的家园,因为人类迁徙的总体运动是从该地区向外而不是向内的。

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。

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

我们在这里的快乐都是虚空的荣耀,这虚假的世界不过是暂时的。