If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

  • -- Virtue 德性

如果一个人有良好的性格,还需要什么其他的美德?人若有名声,其馀的妆饰还有什么价值呢?

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Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

我想,这就是我的天性吧,我喜欢结交新朋友,而且很愿意和他们断绝关系,虽然我这样做总是有充分的理由,而且决不是由于一时的浮躁。

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

人活着总免不了挨打,挨打;无论如何,他都得在这个世界上挤来挤去,得罪人受辱。

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

当我还很年轻却感觉很老的时候,我向媒体展示了很多自己;我知道这是一本好书。

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

节制就是在好的事情上适度,在坏的事情上完全节制。

The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.

生命的价值可以用你的灵魂被多少次深深打动来衡量。

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the north pole.

名声总是带来孤独。成功就像北极一样冰冷和孤独。

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

手段必须服从目的,服从我们对尊严和价值的渴望。

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

如此普遍地为人所知,却又如此孤独,真是奇怪。

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

对我来说,为这个人工作真的很好。

It is not the position, but the disposition.

不是地位,而是性情。