A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
我们自己
Ourselves
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
我们的诞生不过是死亡的开始，正如蜡烛一旦着了火就会熄灭。
Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
通过我们乐于助人，我们可以学会快乐而不是沮丧。
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
对于我们自己所作的观察，为了观察者的缘故，我们变得更偏颇了。
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
爱自由就是爱别人;对权力的爱就是对自己的爱。
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
我只是想让你们知道，当我们谈论战争时，我们实际上是在谈论和平。
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
我们可以让环境控制我们，或者我们可以掌控自己的生活。
We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.
我们都在努力融入社会，寻找自我，尤其是在我们成长的过程中。
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
我相信我们不仅爱别人身上的自己，也恨别人身上的自己。
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
我们牧羊，我们赶牛，我们领导人民。领我走，跟我走，不然就滚开。
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
如果我们自己都不能保守秘密，又怎么能指望别人替我们保守秘密呢?
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
我们通过战胜自己来提高自己。必须有竞争，我们必须赢。
As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.
作为演员，我们付出了太多，所以我喜欢把我的个人生活留给自己。
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When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
当一个人没有理由相信自己时，他相信运气。
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
我们人生的事业不是超越别人，而是超越自己。
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
经过几个月的饥寒交迫，我们突然发现自己能吃上一顿神赐的美餐了。
Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.
人类是一种偷火的动物，我们无法不去制造机器和机器智能，即使我们时不时地使用它们，不仅是为了比自己更聪明，而且是为了把我们带到末日的门口。
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
掌握我们命运的不是星星，而是我们自己。
We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
我们平等地来到这个世界，也平等地离开这个世界。