No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

任何环境的改变都无法弥补性格上的缺陷。

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The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.

问题是,当你在回顾中写东西的时候,需要很大的勇气不去改变,否则你就会忘记某一个事实,你只会考虑你今天的观点。

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

一段时间后,解析政客们一遍又一遍地做同样的事情是有点乏味的。事实每周都在变化,但化妆舞会却没有。

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

一个人的性格最好的指标是他如何对待那些对他没有任何好处的人,以及他如何对待那些无法反击的人。

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

我是由时间、环境、历史造就的,这是肯定的,但我也远远不止这些。我们都是。

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

我们爱的不是品质,而是人;有时是因为他们的缺点,也因为他们的品质。

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

有些人对优点不满意,而另一些人的缺点和缺点却令人愉快。

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.

环境不造就人;他们揭示了他或她。

Blood is inherited and virtue acquired.

血统是遗传的,美德是后天获得的。