We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

  • -- Marcus Tullius Cicero 西塞罗

我们被强烈的赞美欲望所激励,一个人越优秀,他就越会受到荣誉的激励。就是哲学家自己,甚至在他们藐视荣耀所写的书上,也写上了他们的名字。

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You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

你可能认为每个人都有发展成独立人格的自然愿望,但这似乎不是真的。

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

生活必须有某种欲望才能保持运转,而那些真正的欲望得到满足的人,也必须承认那些幻想的欲望。

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

突然的荣耀是一种激情,它能使人做出一种叫笑的鬼脸。

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

如果战斗中没有危险,胜利中就没有荣耀。