We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

  • -- William Penn 威廉·佩恩

我们倾向于喜欢赞美,但却不配。但如果我们想要得到它,我们必须更爱美德。

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

有些老人,不断地赞美他们年轻时的时光。事实上,你几乎会认为在他们那个时代没有傻瓜,但不幸的是,他们自己被留作了榜样。

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

依赖带来顺从和腐败,扼杀美德的萌芽,为野心的设计准备合适的工具。

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

美德要有用,就像黄金一样,必须用更普通、更耐用的合金来合金化。

Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

我们勇敢的男男女女在世界各地战斗,他们应该得到救济。

If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!.

如果你害怕失败,你就不配成功!

Wait for the boy that would do anything to be your everything.

等待那个愿意做任何事的男孩成为你的一切。

A lady would rather be hurt with the truth, than with a lie.

女人宁愿被真相伤害,也不愿被谎言伤害。

Praise a fool, and you may make him useful.

赞美蠢人,可以使他成为有用的人。