Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

宁可死一万次,也不愿伤了我的名誉。

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There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

有些人有一种快乐的性情,一种强烈的荣誉感和自尊感,他们对正义和美德的热爱与一般人对财富和荣誉的热爱是一样的……但这些人的数目是如此之少,我提到他们只是为了向人类表示敬意。

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better.

当你不记得为什么受伤时,那就是你痊愈的时候。当你必须非常努力地工作来重新制造痛苦,而你又不能完全达到那种程度时,那就是你更好的时候。

The virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in mortals is the heroical virtue.

逆境的美德是刚毅,这在凡人是英雄的美德。

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

如果荣誉是有益的,每个人都会是光荣的。