Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

  • -- Alexander Pope 亚历山大·波普

当我们在别人身上赞美自己的时候,我们就会天真地认为自己尊重美德。

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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.

你确实受到了公正的审判。当你的高级法官被证明背叛了真理和他的荣誉时,我判你进监狱,这是一件令人震惊的事。

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

有人赞美没有疾病的人;在我看来,一个贫穷的人似乎没有疾病,但他总是生病。

I really believe in the last name Hoffa being something powerful. You want to live your life to bring honor to that name.

我真的相信霍法这个姓很有力量。你想过你的生活,为这个名字带来荣誉。

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

如果人们应该读这些话,让他们知道权力是一个沉重的负担。不要被锁链束缚。

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

这个世界认为自己被优越的品德所冒犯,乐于把它降低到自己的水平。

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

学习者总是从吹毛求疵开始,而学者总是看到事物积极的一面。

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

什么都不缺是上帝的特权,像上帝一样的人什么都不缺是上帝的特权。

Their silence is praise enough.

他们的沉默是足够的赞美。