Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

  • -- Theodore Roosevelt 西奥多·罗斯福

当我们让嫉妒和仇恨的恶习深入我们的本性时,中等收入的人对自己造成的伤害可能是巨大财富所造成的最大伤害。

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I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

我给他们看有趣的部分,愚蠢的部分,大笑的部分,疯狂的部分,然后是非常非常深刻的部分,我发自内心地和这些人交谈。因为我经历了他们所经历的一切。

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

有一种夸大其词的成分附属于大众的判断:大恶习愈演愈烈,大美德也愈演愈烈;有趣的事件变得更有趣,更柔和的传说变得更柔和。

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

我们对失去朋友的担心并不总是来自于他们的价值感,而是来自于我们自己对他们的需要,以及我们失去了一些对我们有好感的人。

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

同样,如果一个国家浪费了它的一部分财富,或失去了它的一部分贸易,它就不能保持它以前拥有的同样数量的流通媒介。

I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.

我不知道我是不是很复杂。我希望我是。我希望我是这些深沉、复杂的人中的一员。但我就是喜欢玩得开心。

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

没有任何财富的增长,没有任何礼貌的软化,没有任何改革或革命使人类的平等更近了一毫米。

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

任何形式的上瘾都是不好的,不管上瘾的是酒精、吗啡还是理想主义。

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

当然,有时要听从指导,有时要冒着一切危险走自己的路。

It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

你在挣钱之前为之奋斗和奋斗的东西才是最有价值的。

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

最小的行为胜于最大的意图。