One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

  • -- Elias Canetti 伊莱亚斯卡内蒂

一个人应该用赞美来认识自己不是什么。

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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.

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。

He is a fool that praises himself, and he a madman that speaks ill of himself.

愚妄人自吹自擂;疯子说自己的坏话。