A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
卓越
Excellence
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
所有人类的优秀都是比较的。也许有些人比我们优秀，就像我们认为自己比最卑鄙的人优秀一样。
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
那些取得任何卓越成就的人，通常一生都在一个追求中度过;因为卓越往往不是在更容易的条件下获得的。
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
没有什么比冷淡地接受卓越更能证明缺乏最高的道德和智力素质了。
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
所有科学的伟大目标都是通过从最少的假设或公理中进行逻辑推理来涵盖最多的经验事实。
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
我们选择朋友就像选择情人一样——并不是因为他们本身有什么特别的优点，而仅仅是出于某种满足我们自爱的环境。
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
如果你想在大事上取得卓越，你就得在小事上养成习惯。优秀也不例外，它是一种普遍的态度。
Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
然而，亚里士多德对实质的卓越性，远没有与宏大的风格联系在一起，而是与一些有时近乎术语的东西联系在一起。
Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.
当你看到有效的成就或美德受到攻击时，那是因为有人把它们看作是自己不足的一面镜子，而不是通向卓越的鼓舞人心的灯塔。
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
明白事理的人使自己适应世界;不讲道理的人坚持要使世界适应他自己。因此，所有的进步都取决于不讲道理的人。
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
卓越胜于平庸。普通人的教训无处不在。真正深刻和独到的见解，只有在研究典范。
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
真正的快乐精神，兴奋，超越自我的感觉，这是最优秀的试金石，在数学和诗歌中都能找到。
Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
你可以很容易地从数量上得到坏的东西;路是平坦的，它就在附近，但在卓越的面前不朽的神已经付出了汗水，和漫长和陡峭的道路是它。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
你能为别人做的最大的好事，不只是分享你的财富，而是向他展示自己的财富。
Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
卓越是一个应该占据我们所有时间的过程。
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.
我宁可在知识上胜过别人，也不愿在能力和权柄上胜过别人。
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
人生最大的乐趣就是做别人说你做不到的事。
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
伟大的心灵总是会遭到平庸心智的激烈反对。如果一个人不是不加思索地屈从于遗传的偏见，而是诚实而勇敢地运用他的智慧，那么后者就无法理解这一点。
When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.
当你年轻的时候，最愚蠢的想法似乎是最大的成就。