A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
男人
Men
A lot of men have lost money chasing women. But no man has ever lost women chasing money.
很多男人在追求女人的过程中都赔了钱。但是从来没有男人因为追逐金钱而失去过女人。
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
缺乏判断力的人忽视了他们手中的美好,直到失去它。
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
男人和女人一样,更多的是由他们的心而不是他们的理解来引导。
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
毕竟,行动的人只是思想的人的无意识工具。
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
人不应该向任何东西发誓;因为反思会使他们的决心成为谎言。
All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
人人生而平等,只有人把自己置于平等之上。
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
当男人不后悔生命如此短暂时,他们是在做一些消磨时间的事情。
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
人们反对进步,不是因为他们讨厌进步,而是因为他们喜欢惰性。
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
当人们放弃思考的特权时,自由的最后阴影就会离开地平线。
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
凡是有所成就的人,都主要参与了他们自己的教育。
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
对许多人来说,获得财富并不能结束他们的烦恼,它只会改变他们。
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
我打算把自己变成一个男人,如果我在这方面成功了,我将在其他一切方面成功。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
人类的利益总是驱使他们向正确的方向发展,这是一种有福的必然性;再一次,让所有的犯罪变得卑鄙和丑陋。
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
即使在文学和艺术领域,也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反,如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次),十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
人们很少,或者更确切地说,从来没有一段时间,故意反抗任何不值得反抗的东西。
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
不要做小梦,因为它们没有感动人心的力量。
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
正如我们的敌人所发现的那样,我们可以像男人一样理性,所以现在让我们向他们展示,我们也可以像男人一样战斗。
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
大多数人都有一种近乎无限的能力,认为一切都是理所当然的。人不能从历史的教训中学到很多东西,这是所有历史教训中最重要的一条。