A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

  • -- Marcus Aurelius 马库斯·奥雷利乌斯

一个高尚的人用一种高于自己的思想来比较和估计自己;一个卑鄙的人,比他自己还卑鄙。一个产生抱负;另一种野心,是一个庸俗的人所追求的。

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I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to.

我绝对拒绝我事业的名声部分。我甚至拒绝我的生意的金钱方面。我尽我所能做好工作,我努力在我的艺术中成长,追求真理。这就是我想从我的艺术中得到的,这就是我渴望的。

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

没有一项权利被剥夺得太久,我们不渴望实现;没有一种错误存在得太久,我们不打算废除。

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

人类不会编织生命之网。他只是其中的一小部分。无论他对网络做了什么,他对自己也做了什么。

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

许多在十岁时就认识自己的人,在十岁到三十岁之间就会完全忘掉自己。