To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

  • -- Carl Friedrich Gauss 高斯

赞美它就等于赞美我自己。对于整个工作内容…在过去的三、三十五年里,我的思绪几乎完全被我自己的沉思占据了。

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My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out.

我的信念是,大多数政界人士只是对从事这一政治职业感兴趣,并为自己连任做必要的事情。如果这恰好符合公共利益,那就太好了。但如果不这样做,公共利益就会受损。

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

在我看来,戏剧骑士不仅代表了这个职业的顶峰,也代表了这个职业所受到的尊重。令我惊讶的是,能在那家公司找到自己,是我职业生涯中遇到的最伟大的事情。

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

有些老人,不断地赞美他们年轻时的时光。事实上,你几乎会认为在他们那个时代没有傻瓜,但不幸的是,他们自己被留作了榜样。

You are always working on your worst book and your best book at the same time. The praise does not make you write better, and it shouldn't make you write worse, either.

你总是同时在写你最差的书和最好的书。赞美不会让你写得更好,也不应该让你写得更差。

I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

我想我有时表现得好像我不是一个人……有时我回头看自己,想起我以前说过的话,或者我的发型,我就会畏缩。