We are what we repeatedly do excellence, therefore is not an act, but a habit.

  • -- Aristotle 亚里士多德

我们是我们反复做的优秀的人,因此不是一种行为,而是一种习惯。

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No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

没有一种习惯或品质比虚伪更容易获得,也没有一种东西比否认我们内心的情感和行为准则更容易学会。但是,每一种激情的种子都是与生俱来的,没有人不带着它们来到这个世界。

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

常识是世界上分布得最均匀的东西,因为每个人都认为自己很有天赋,即使是那些在其他事情上最难满足的人,也没有比他们已经拥有的东西更渴望得到常识的习惯。

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

指挥本身的行为,在空中挥舞我的手臂和负责,我没有错过。我错过了与音乐接触的感官享受。

I sat through the first act and heard my lovely lines falling like cold porridge on a damp mattress.

我坐着看了第一幕,听到我可爱的台词像冷粥一样落在潮湿的床垫上。

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

我们最大的光荣不在于从不跌倒,而在于每次跌倒之后都爬起来。

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

一种闪亮的品质会给另一种增添光彩,或者隐藏一些明显的缺陷。