A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自私
Selfishness
The flowers of others are red.
别人的花是红色的。
A miser and his persimmon seeds.
一个守财奴和他的柿子。
He draws water over his own rice field.
他在自己的稻田上引水。
To lend your hatchet and get your forest cut down.
借你的斧头砍倒你的森林。
Who eats his cock alone must saddle his horse alone.
独自吃鸡的人，也得独自备马。
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
礼貌只是一般自私的表面现象。
Selfishness stops the flow of blessings to you and others.
自私会阻止祝福流向你和他人。
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
我已经放弃读书;我发现它能让我忘记自己。
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
可怜爱人的自私吧，它是短暂的，是无望的希望;这是不可能的。
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
我一生都是一个自私的人，在实践上，虽然在原则上不是。
For beings who have it in us to afford so much joy to others, how miserly we are!
对于那些拥有快乐的人来说，我们是多么的吝啬啊!
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
个人主义很像天真;一定是无意识的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds.
与其在自私的种子长成巨大的杂草后试图根除它们，不如不要播下自私的种子。
As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.
现在，作为一个父亲，我不会做我父亲做的事情，因为这让我在小时候感到情绪不稳定。但他做这些事不是出于自私或恶意。
The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
这一运动的组织和持续不断的发展表明了许多人对自私、贪婪和少数人的忽视的怨恨。
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
死后的慈善是自私的本质，当遗赠给那些即使活着，也不会放弃任何东西的人。
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
初升的太阳可以驱散黑夜的黑暗，但它不能驱除人类心中的邪恶、仇恨、偏执和自私。
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
伟大的成就通常来自伟大的牺牲，而不是自私的结果。