It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

  • -- Jean Rostand 罗斯丹

有时候,一个明目张胆的错误把人们的注意力吸引到过于谦虚的事实上来,是件好事。

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Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

毫无疑问,良心足以引导最冷酷的人走上美德之路;热情之于良知,犹如荣誉之于责任;我们身上有一种多余的灵魂,当美好的事物完成后,把它奉献给美丽的事物是很甜蜜的。

The whole world is my native land.

整个世界都是我的故乡。