It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

  • -- Isaac D'Israeli 艾萨克·迪斯雷利

当优秀的作品摆在我们面前时,满足于平庸是一种令人不快的品味。

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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

有些事情平庸是不能容忍的:诗歌、音乐、绘画、公众的雄辩。听一篇冷冰冰的演讲被人浮夸地大肆抨击,或者听一篇二流的诗歌被人说成全是拙劣诗人的夸夸其谈,这是多么折磨人啊!

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

没有人能说谎,没有人能隐藏任何事情,当他直视某人的眼睛。

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

嫉妒是平庸对天才的赞颂。

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

历史是一套达成共识的谎言。