Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

  • -- Aristotle 亚里士多德

人们通过不断地以一种特定的方式行动来获得一种特定的品质。通过正义的行为,你变得公正;通过有节制的行为,你变得温和;通过勇敢的行为,你变得勇敢。

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It's so much fun playing her [Ling], but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something.

扮演她(凌)很有趣,但我担心人们会在街上惊恐地逃离我。他们以为我会把他们的头咬下来。

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

演员是完全脆弱的。他的全部性格都暴露在批判性的判断之下——他的智慧、他的举止、他的措辞、他的整个外表。简而言之,他的自负。

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

哲学中的真理是指概念与外在实在相对应。

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

我的真实性格可能介于两者之间。

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

人格终结和脑损伤从何开始?

The first duty of a man is to think for himself.

一个人的首要职责是独立思考。