A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always believed, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

  • -- Michel de Montaigne 蒙塔尼米歇尔

谈到自己,一个人总会失去一些东西。人们总是相信他说的对自己不利的话,但当他自我表扬时,却引起了人们的不信任。

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What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

音乐对我来说意味着什么?我想如果没有它,如果没有它,我不会有什么成就。这是我的交流方式,是我成长的方式,是我从生命中的一个点到另一个点的交通工具。

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

无限的经济增长具有一种神奇的品质,既能平息不满,又能保持特权,这一事实在自由派经济学家中并没有被忽视。