It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

  • -- Samuel Smiles 塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯

人们通常会发现,那些经常为自己的不幸而哀叹的人,只是在自食其果,他们的疏忽、管理不善、粗心大意,或者是不用功。

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I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.

我认为成为一名艺术家比以往任何时候都难。我认为你最终,尤其是作为一个中年人,你要为说“我要把我的一生奉献给艺术”或“我要把我的一生奉献给写小说”而付出巨大的代价。“你最终会一无所有。

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

一个人不顾个人后果,不顾障碍、危险和压力,做他必须做的事,这就是人类一切道德的基础。