There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

  • -- Samuel Richardson 塞缪尔·理查森

在人类的头脑中有一种骄傲,一种自爱,这种骄傲和自爱很少会被压得如此之低,以至于使男人和女人变得比他们应该的更卑贱。

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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

骄傲仍然瞄准最好的房子:男人会是天使,天使会是神。渴望成为神,如果天使倒下;立志成为天使的人造反。

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

他们可能不需要我;但他们可能。我要让我的头就在眼前;像我这样微不足道的微笑也许正是他们所需要的。

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

无知最真实的特征是虚荣、骄傲和傲慢。

Self-deception is a pessimistic definition of optimism.

自我欺骗是乐观主义的悲观定义。