That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

  • -- Marcus Annaeus Seneca 马库斯·安纳尤斯·塞内卡

骄傲和炫耀所带来的,与其说是一种恩赐,不如说是一种抱负。

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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

如果你给予能得到的,你就不是真正的给予。接受别人给你的,而不是你想要别人给你的。不能得到的就给予。

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

被动的不活动,因为你没有得到具体的指示去做这个或那个,是一个严重的缺陷。