A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自己
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Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
资本家没有自我牺牲的能力，正如一个人没有自力更生的能力一样。
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
好人就是像管理自己财产那样管理自己的人:他的自主存在是建立在物质权力的基础上的。
Happiness is a choice, yeah, thing in life make it difficult but at the end of the day you control your own happiness.
幸福是一种选择，是的，生活中的事情让它变得困难，但最终你控制了自己的幸福。
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
是的，我想你可能会说我是一个孤独的人，但是我觉得在一个拥挤的房间里和无聊的人在一起比我一个人感到更孤独。
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
没有人能把一根链子套在同伴的脚踝上而不发现另一端拴在自己的脖子上。
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
在我们这个共和国，一个好公民的首要条件是能够并愿意尽自己的力量。
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
原罪是关于人的一件事，它使人能够设想自己的完美，却不能实现它。
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
一个像爱自己国家一样爱其他国家的男人和一个像爱自己妻子一样爱其他女人的男人站在同一水平线上。
The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.
如果你只是偶尔需要一辆车，也许你不必拥有一辆车，这种想法可能会流行起来，就像分时度假在房地产中流行一样。
Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.
人不可自以为行恶就可以得善报，反害自己的性命。对他自己的邪恶影响是肯定的。
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
经验要求人是唯一一种吞噬同类的动物，因为我无法用更温和的词来形容富人对穷人的普遍掠夺。
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
如果时间就是金钱，那么节约时间似乎是合乎道德的，尤其是节省自己的时间，而为他人着想可以为这种节俭开脱。一个是直接的。
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
友谊不过是与他人的愚蠢和不幸结盟的另一个名称。我们自己的那份痛苦就够了:那么，为什么要自愿地进入别人的痛苦呢?
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
幸福生长在我们自己的火炉边，而不能从别人的花园中采得。
I think today's music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.
我觉得今天的音乐糟透了。我是认真的。
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
爱的开始是让我们所爱的人成为完美的自己，而不是扭曲他们以符合我们自己的形象。否则，我们只爱自己在他们身上的反映。
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
意识到自己的力量使我们谦虚。
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
如果你谋生，如果你自己挣钱，你就是自由的——不管这个星球上的人有多自由。