Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

  • -- John Stuart Mill 约翰·斯图尔特·密尔

性格的力量在什么时候、在什么地方出现,古怪就会出现;一般说来,一个社会的古怪程度与它所包含的天才、精神活力和勇气的多少成正比。

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

每次你真正停下来正视恐惧的时候,你都会获得力量、勇气和自信。你必须做你认为你不能做的事。

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

勇气——对危险的高度敏感,以及忍受危险的精神意愿。