Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

  • -- Aristotle 亚里士多德

嫉妒既是合理的,也是属于理性的人;嫉妒是卑贱的,也是属于卑贱的,因为嫉妒可以使人得到好处,嫉妒却不能使人得到好处。

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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

有一种嫉妒是不需要什么火就能点燃的;这很难说是一种激情,而是在令人不安的利己主义的阴郁、潮湿的沮丧中滋生出来的一种枯萎病。

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

如果图片稍后需要上清漆,如果有必要的话,我允许一个修复者这样做。

Don't allow your wounds to turn you in to a person you are not.

不要让你的伤痛把你变成一个不是你的人。

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

即使你是月亮,也会嫉妒星星。