We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

当虚荣不能使我们说话时,我们很少说话。

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I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

我什么都不满足,躁动不安,野心勃勃……我鄙视自己的虚荣心,虚荣心是我努力的一半动力。啊,但愿我是那些曾经着手犁地的迟钝而又聪明的傻瓜之一,什么也不怀疑。

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

在教育、经济、城市规划、社会政策中,没有一件事是与黑人无关的。

'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.

使人高尚的不是人所做的事,而是人所愿意做的事。

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

纨绔子弟就是那些傻瓜认为自己是有价值的人。