When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

  • -- Honoré de Balzac 尊敬的巴尔扎克

当女人爱我们时,她们会原谅我们的一切,甚至包括我们的罪行;当他们不爱我们的时候,他们会毫无理由地赞扬我们,甚至是我们的美德。

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What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.

宽容是什么?这是人性的结果。我们都是由脆弱和错误组成的;让我们相互原谅对方的愚蠢——这是自然的第一法则。

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

我想,在我人生的这个阶段,我学到了很多关于女人的事情,男人永远不会知道,也永远不可能希望知道。

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

女人老了以后,宁愿自己的坟墓,也不愿自己年轻美丽的地方。

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

当然,最好的作品,对公众最有价值的作品,都出自那些没有结婚或没有孩子的人。

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

人们反对进步,不是因为他们讨厌进步,而是因为他们喜欢惰性。

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

还有比焚书更严重的罪行。其中之一就是不读。

History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

历史不过是罪恶和不幸的写照。

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

被奉承成美德的人比被威逼出罪恶的人多。

Forgiveness without understanding is like faith without proof.

没有理解的宽恕就像没有证据的信仰。

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

也许,美德只不过是心灵上的礼貌。