The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

  • -- Eric Hoffer 埃里克·霍弗

与邻居和睦相处的能力在很大程度上取决于与我们自己和睦相处的能力。有自尊心的人会尽量容忍邻居的缺点,就像他容忍自己的缺点一样。

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What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.

宽容是什么?这是人性的结果。我们都是由脆弱和错误组成的;让我们相互原谅对方的愚蠢——这是自然的第一法则。

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

一个明智的教育体系最终会教会我们,一个人知道的东西是多么的少,他还需要学习的东西是多么的多。