Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

  • -- Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利

节制被称为一种美德,它能限制伟人的野心,并能安慰平庸之辈,因为他们缺乏财富和优点。

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I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.

我遇到了很多做模特的年轻女孩,她们说,‘哦,我在城里跑来跑去,人们在给我拍照’,而我正在保存收据,学习如何创业。

The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the euro becoming an international reserve currency.

储备货币的角色似乎增加了一个地区的声望,一些欧洲人也谈到了欧元成为国际储备货币的可取之处。

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

如果你选择的职业有一些意想不到的不便之处,你可以这样安慰自己:没有哪个职业是没有它们的。

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

我们为什么要如此匆忙而浪费生命呢?我们决定先挨饿后挨饿。

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes . . . and dead armadillos.

路中间什么也没有,只有黄色的条纹……和死犰狳。

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

虽然野心本身是一种恶习,但它往往也是美德之母。

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

谁不知道什么是不幸,谁就不知道什么是自己,什么是自己的美德。

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

小事安慰我们,因为小事折磨我们。