A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自己
Themselves
The wise understand by themselves, fools follow the reports of others.
智者自知，愚者听命于人。
People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.
人们总是试图找到他们自己和他们在世界上的位置。
My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
我的工作是让人们了解他们自己不敢做的事。
Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.
你待自己要像你的邻舍待自己一样，并且要使人喜悦。
Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
同意和做这种事的人将受到同等的惩罚。
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
照顾好奢侈品，生活必需品自然就会好起来。
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
人们醉心于工作，所以他们看不到自己的真实状态。
People just need to be confident in their own skin and be proud of themselves.
人们只需要对自己的皮肤有信心，并为自己感到自豪。
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
领导者的品质反映在他们为自己设定的标准上。
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
宣传不会欺骗人们;这只会帮助他们欺骗自己。
Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.
优秀的教师不应该让自己成为国家的教官。
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
并不是说他们看不到解决方案。而是他们看不到问题所在。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
他们不是皇室成员。他们刚好把我当作他们的姑妈。
People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves.
人们觉得他们被要求满足他们工作领域的各种规章制度和要求，而议员们并没有把这些限制强加于他们自己。
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
诸神自己也记不起他们的恩赐。
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
这是魔鬼有时对善良的人所采取的一种报复，他以他们所压抑的、自以为高人一等的激情的力量把他们迷住了。
Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
精神生活当然可以遵循人们在假武术中看到的模式，大多数老师都做出含糊而神奇的声明，而这些声明从来没有经过测试，而他们的学生则用奇怪的想法、空洞的仪式和其他矫揉造作来扰乱自己。
Cancer is the great equalizer. Everyone is affected by it either themselves or through loved ones.
癌症是最好的均衡器。每个人都受到它的影响，要么是自己，要么是通过所爱的人。