We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

我们获得了抵制诱惑的力量。

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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

拥有自我意味着相信自己的力量。也要对他人的观点持开放态度。它是开放的,而不是封闭的。所以,是的,我的自我很大,但在某些方面也很小。我的自我对我所做的事负责——无论是好是坏。

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

被迫工作,被迫尽力而为,将在你的节制和自我控制,勤奋和意志力的力量,快乐和满足,和一百个懒惰的人永远不会知道的美德。

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

当有人叫我小说家时,我总是抗拒:这暗示了小说固有的某种优越性。我不是小说家,我是作家。

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

没有什么比适当的教养、一套健全的价值观和见证人更容易抵制诱惑了。

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

诱惑是透过钥匙孔窥视的魔鬼。屈服是打开门,邀请他进来。

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

对美德的考验是抵制一切邪恶的诱惑。