A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

  • -- Walter Savage Landor 兰德

一个人的虚荣心告诉他什么是荣誉,一个人的良心告诉他什么是正义。

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Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

虚荣心对自然是一种重要的帮助:对生命来说是完全和绝对必要的。这是大自然将你与地球联系在一起的方式之一。

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

人们尊重他们知识范围内的东西,却没有意识到他们是多么依赖于知识范围之外的东西。

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

当荣誉的太阳落山,财富展翅,知识就会闪耀,那是最珍贵的东西。

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

虚荣死很难;在某些顽固的情况下,它比人活得长。