Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

  • -- Alexander Pope 亚历山大·波普

举止文雅,感情温柔;聪明的人;简单起见,一个孩子。

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However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

不论你的生活如何卑贱,你要面对它生活,不要躲避它,更别用恶言咒骂它。视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧。不要麻烦自己去找新的东西,无论是衣服还是朋友。万物不变,是我们在变。卖掉你的衣服,保留你的思想。

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

同样地,如果我在没有充分证据的情况下让自己相信任何事情,那么仅仅相信一件事也许并没有什么大的害处;也许这是真的,也许我永远没有机会在外表上表现出来。

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

简单并不是艺术的目标,但一个人不顾自己,通过进入事物的真实意义而达到简单。

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

对于人类真正的艺术家来说,所谓的不礼貌往往是最生动和最重要的。

I'm a mild-mannered person.

我是一个温文尔雅的人。