A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
财富
Wealth
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
凡不以自己所有为最大财富的人,虽是世界的主人,却是不快乐的。
I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.
通过简单地理解食物的味道,我带着丰富的知识来到了餐桌上。
My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.
我父亲那一代人给了我们这一代人一块财富、目标和世界经济主导地位的土地。
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
财富、美貌和名望都是转瞬即逝的。当这些都没有了,就只剩下有用的东西了。
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
失去财富的人损失惨重;失去朋友的人失去的更多;但是失去勇气的人就失去了一切。
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
正像我们无权只享受财富而不创造财富一样,我们也无权只享受幸福而不创造幸福。
We cannot not say how much wealth there is in a country till we know how it is shared among its inhabitants.
在我们知道一个国家的居民如何分享财富之前,我们不能说这个国家有多少财富。
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
文学是通向光荣的道路,永远为那些没有荣誉和财富的天才们敞开着。
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
很多人用他们的健康来获得财富,然后不得不用他们的财富来恢复健康。
Great wealth is often created by the launching of great surprises, not by the launching of great enterprises.
巨大的财富往往是由巨大的惊喜所创造的,而不是由伟大的企业所创造的。
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
悼词。对一个人的赞扬,这个人要么拥有财富和权力的优势,要么认为自己已经死了。
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
获得神性思想财富的人是幸福的,对神的信仰是黑暗的人是不幸的。
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He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
他是个大傻瓜,以为财富的主要力量是满足欲望。在百分之九十九的情况下,它创造的需求多于供给。
In wealth, many friends; in poverty, not even relatives.
财富多,朋友多;在贫困中,甚至没有亲戚。
Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.
财富是最大的财富,在拉丁语和英语中,财富已经取代了她的名字。
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
经济学家们开始认识到,严格按照平均收入来衡量国家财富和贫困,并不能说明一个社会的健康状况或生存能力有多么重要。
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
财富是充分体验生活的能力。
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
没有任何财富的增长,没有任何礼貌的软化,没有任何改革或革命使人类的平等更近了一毫米。