All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.

  • -- Zhuangzi 庄子

所有存在的事物都是一个整体。我们把美丽而稀有的东西看作有价值的东西,把丑陋而丑陋的东西看作污秽而腐朽的东西。污秽而腐朽的东西可以变成稀有而有价值的东西,稀有而有价值的东西可以变成污秽而腐朽的东西。

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If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

如果你对这个世界有任何真正有价值的贡献,它将通过你自己的个性的表达来实现,那点神圣的火花会让你与众不同。

Call a girl pretty, and she'll forget it in an hour. Call a girl ugly, and she'll remember it for the rest of her life.

叫一个女孩漂亮,她一个小时内就会忘记。叫一个女孩丑,她会一辈子记住的。

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

美丽只是肤浅的,这是一件好事,否则我会腐烂到骨子里。

It was ugly, but then ugly objects as a general rule are the bravest.

它是丑陋的,但是丑陋的物体通常是最勇敢的。

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.

一个公正的人是一个被认可并转化为正义的人。

Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.

我们失去健康之后,我们的健康似乎总是更有价值。

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

勇敢是普遍的,但伟大的灵魂是罕见的。

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

我从未见过如此肮脏而美好的一天。