I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

  • -- Frederick Douglass 弗雷德里克·道格拉斯

我宁愿做真实的自己,即使冒着招致他人嘲笑的危险,也不愿做虚假的自己,招致自己的憎恶。

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You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

你永远不应该假定对它不是很明显,在你拥有力量,智慧也不做一个更可鄙的图相比,在尝试讽刺,他表明,他不明白,他会让他嘲笑的对象。

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

我不得不自学放弃传统的摇滚吉他和演唱方式。有些事你不希望成功,有些事你做了,有些事永远不会成功。

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them

我不断地努力,不去嘲笑,不去哭泣,不去蔑视人类的行为,而是去理解它们

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

我若不为自己,谁为我呢?如果我不为别人,我是谁?如果不是现在,什么时候?