The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

  • -- George Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

事实是,我们当中几乎没有人有足够的道德精力去做超过一件真正不可动摇的事情。

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With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

有了这种体验的壮丽感和它可怕的简练感,把我们所有的一切都集中到一个绝望的努力去看和触摸,我们将几乎没有时间对我们所看到和触摸的事物做出理论。

The nice thing about self-love is that it's hardly ever unrequited.

自爱的好处是它很少是没有回报的。

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

尊严是没有商量余地的。尊严是家庭的荣誉。

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

没有荣誉,再多的能力也无济于事。