A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

一个人可能不仅因为他的行为，而且因为他的不作为而对他人造成伤害，在这两种情况下，他都要对他们的伤害负应有的责任。

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

一个人可能会在一个念头上停留太久，以致于这个念头会使他成为一个囚犯。

A person may paint or talk about painting but he cannot do both at the same time.

一个人可以画画或谈论画画，但他不能同时做这两件事。

A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

一个人需要隔一段时间离开家人和同伴，去新的地方。一个人必须离开熟悉的环境，才能接受影响和改变。

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

任何心理素质的人都有自己的想法。这是常识。

A person of bourgeois origin goes through life with some expectation of getting what he wants, within reasonable limits. Hence the fact that in times of stress ‘educated’ people tend to come to the front.

资产阶级出身的人，一生都带着某种期望，在合理的限度内得到他想要的东西。因此，在压力大的时候，“受过教育”的人往往会走到最前面。

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

一个人常常在逃避命运的路上遇到自己的命运。

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

一个人没有什么比他所憎恨的笑话更能清楚地揭示他的性格了。

A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

一个人很少生病，但周围的人却怀着微弱的希望，希望他会死。

A person should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

一个人应该在他出生时哀悼，而不是在他去世时。

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

一个人应该围绕他想要的生活方式来设计他的生活方式。

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

一个人不应该太诚实。直树先砍，诚实人先遭殃。

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

一个人会像在照片中一样，在一瞬间展现自己，但在背景中，他会比自己的影子更清晰。

A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

当一个人停止做梦时，他就开始死亡。

A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.

一个对科学非常感兴趣的人会在一定程度上忽视他的社交生活，但不是完全忽视，因为这也是不健康的。所以一个人必须根据自己的喜好来计算，如何将这些东西比例化。