Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our powers of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

  • -- Friedrich Nietzsche 弗里德里希·尼采

不应得的赞扬比不应得的责备更能引起良心的痛苦,但可能只是因为这个原因,我们的判断能力在被过分赞扬时比被不公正地低估时更能完全暴露出来。

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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。

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

真正的赞美常临到卑微的人;虚假的赞美只给强者。