After I'm dead, I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

  • -- Marcus Porcius Cato 马库斯·波修斯·卡托

我死后,我宁愿有人问我为什么没有纪念碑,也不愿有人问我为什么有纪念碑。

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The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.

杜马斯的一生不仅是一座努力和成功的丰碑,也是一座迷宫。它充斥着假名和伪装,出现在突然和意想不到的地方,又以突然和意想不到的方式退却,出现在丑闻和谣言中,出现在各种各样的神秘事件、陷阱和埋伏中。

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

如果你周围有足够多的人告诉你你很棒,然后你开始相信你很棒,然后有人告诉你你很臭,你也相信!

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

当我不需要和别人说话的时候,我的想象力发挥得更好。