To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

  • -- Charles De Talleyrand Perigord 查尔斯·德塔雷兰德·佩里戈尔

要想在这个世界上取得成功,要有洞察力去辨别谁是傻瓜,要比发现谁是聪明人重要得多。

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I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

我什么都不满足,躁动不安,野心勃勃……我鄙视自己的虚荣心,虚荣心是我努力的一半动力。啊,但愿我是那些曾经着手犁地的迟钝而又聪明的傻瓜之一,什么也不怀疑。

A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.

一个充满爱的家庭为孩子的成功提供了基础,一个有男人和女人的牢固的家庭——一生都在一起——一直是,也将永远是这样的家庭的关键。

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

试图让自己变得比实际更笨的麻烦在于,你经常会成功。

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

我知道很多人认为我很傻。至少我不是受过教育的傻瓜。

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

工作是一种必须避免的罪恶。

A public is a necessary fiction.

公众是必要的虚构。