There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

  • -- Robert Louis Stevenson 罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森

有道德的人们普遍认为应该善待邻居。我必须让一个人变得优秀:我自己。但是,我对邻居的责任更接近于通过说,如果可能的话,我必须让他幸福来表达。

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There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

在我们准备过高估计别人的时候,可能有一种恶意的成分——可以说,我们是在为自己积累一种乐趣,以便以后把他们的身材缩小。

The strongest people aren't always the people who win, but the people who don't give up when they lose.

最强大的人并不总是那些赢的人,而是那些输了也不放弃的人。

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

经济衰退是指邻居失业。抑郁是当你失去你的。

Beat your drum inside the house to spare the neighbors.

在屋子里敲鼓,免得邻居们受到伤害。