At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

  • -- Edwin Hubbell Chapin 埃德温·哈贝尔·查宾

在这个世界上所表现出来的一点点勇敢的背后,潜藏着一种可怜的懦弱。人们将面对粉末和钢铁,因为他们没有勇气面对公众舆论。

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To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

因此,把这个世界想象成一个普遍的疯人院,或者说是一个疯子的地方,而把自己想象成一个医生,是当前智慧中最必要的一点:一个重要的想象,一条通往幸福的道路。

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

你对这个世界了解得越多,就有越多的机会嘲笑它。

It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.

做别人没有做的事需要勇气。

Brave men are brave from the very first.

勇敢的人从一开始就是勇敢的。