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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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

诗人失去了他们本应得到的赞美的一半,如果知道他们小心翼翼地涂抹了什么的话。

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

把每一点批评都夹在两层赞扬之间。