Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

  • -- Van Wyck Brooks 范·威克·布鲁克斯

宽宏大量的人没有虚荣心,没有嫉妒心,他们在任何地方都以真实和坚实为食。更重要的是,他们发现它无处不在。

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Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.

有一次有人对我吼道:“你从来不写你自己。“人们过去常常为此生我的气。但我对自己的定义是完全可以争取的。我无处不在,就像我们所有人一样。

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

没有什么比孤独中偷偷产生的嫉妒更能扰乱我们的理智,消耗我们的健康。

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

我从任何地方获得灵感,这些灵感都储存在我的大脑中。

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

我认为,嫉妒是所有缺点中最糟糕的,因为它使双方都成为受害者。