A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自己
Himself
One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
一个人相信别人会对他做他想做的事。
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.
在儿子心中留下自己形象的人，只活了一半。
To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.
知道得亨通却不去行的，这人便为罪。
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
人通过塑造环境的决定塑造自己。
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
上级责备自己。下等人责怪别人。
Man fools himself. He prays for a long life and he fears old age.
人傻瓜自己。他祈求长寿，他害怕年老。
A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
一个人有时和他自己不同，就像他和别人不同一样。
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
他比那想要战胜自己的人奋斗得更努力。
If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
如果一个人没有失败过，那么他就没有挑战过自己。
Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.
欢乐是一个微妙的精灵;我认为忘记自己是最幸福的。
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world.
与自己和谐相处的人与世界和谐相处。
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
努力使自己适合所有人的人很快就会瘦下来。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
人是一种特殊的存在，如果让他自己处于孤立的状态，他将是最弱小的生物之一;但与他的同类相联系，他创造了奇迹。
Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.
任何一部电影的导演都是非常重要的，演员必须把自己交给自己塑造。
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
一个受过教育的人是彻底预防欺诈的，为自己着想，并试图在演讲或纸上以某种方式表达自己的思想。
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
当一个人对他说话的人不理解，他自己也不理解时，这就是形而上学。
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
画家不仅要画他面前的东西，还要画他内心看到的东西。
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
艺术是一个人表达自己的欲望，记录他的个性对他所生活的世界的反应。