We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large 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是为了让人们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。

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

同样值得提醒老师的是,纠正错误的过分严厉有时会使一个男孩打消努力的念头。

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。

We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.

我们必须重建人类的心脏,并说服人们,希望不仅是可能的,而且是必不可少的。