A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自己
Own
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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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
没有自己的认可，一个人是不会感到舒适的。
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
美是真理的微笑，当她在一面完美的镜子里看到她自己的脸时。
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
今天的很多教育都非常低效。我们常常在应该教年轻人自己种花的时候，却给他们插花。
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
不要把孩子的学习只局限于自己，因为他是在另一个时代出生的。
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
由于石油工业不拥有太阳，太阳能的使用还没有被开发出来。
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
要使自己的自由得到保障，就连敌人也必须保护自己不受压迫;因为如果他违反了这一义务，他就为自己树立了一个先例。