We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

我们承认自己的小错误,只是为了让别人相信我们没有大错误。

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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

的确,满是缺点是一种罪恶;但是,满是幻想却不愿意去认识它们,这是更大的罪恶,因为这是一种自愿性幻想的进一步错误。

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

我的数学从来没有学好过——我似乎从来没有说服老师我的答案不是字面意思。

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

牧羊人总是试图说服羊群,他们的利益和他的是一样的。

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own.

看到你哥哥的缺点是多么容易,而面对自己的缺点又是多么困难。