名人名言(二)

*精神

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
--Sholem Asch
不是记忆力，恰恰相反，是遗忘构成了我们赖以生存的必要条件之一。
--谢洛姆·阿施

Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
--Ugo Betti
记忆就像岩石，时间和距离如酸质般将它侵蚀。
--雨果·贝蒂

The prodigal robs his heir, the miser himself.
--Thomas Fuller
挥霍者掠夺他的继承人的财产，守财奴掠夺自己的财产。
--托马斯·福勒

Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its ardour and activity.
--La Rochefoucauld
正如踌躇满志是精神的激情和活力，中庸则是心灵的怠惰。
--拉罗什福科

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
--William Ralph Inge
当一个人试图创造美的事物或者发现真理时，他从不感到厌烦。
--威廉·拉尔夫·英奇

To be conscious of that you are ignorant is the great step to knowledge.
--Benjamin Disraeli
意识到自己的无知是认识的第一步。
--本杰明·迪斯累利

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
--Montaigne
航行若没有确定的目的港，风决不会助他一臂之力。
--蒙田

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automation.
--Einstein
人就像其他任何一种动物，生性懒惰。如果没有刺激，他便不动脑筋，如同自动化系统一般按习惯行事。
--爱因斯坦

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
--Max Lerner
当你在内心找到一种可以忍受一切痛苦的坚强力量时，成长历程就出现了飞跃。
--马克斯·雷勒

To be adult is to be alone.
--Jean Rostand
长大成人意味着从此孤独。
--让·罗斯丹

Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave./The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.
--Tagore
蜜蜂从花中啜蜜，离开时营营地道谢。／浮夸的蝴蝶却相信花是应该向他道谢的。
--泰戈尔

Love is not 123 The heart speaks many ways.
--Racine
爱不是无声的。心灵以各种方式说话。
--拉辛

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other.
--Rainer Maria Rilke
两颗寂寞的心相爱护、相偎依、相敬重，爱就在此间。
--里尔克

Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but who branches extend into heaven.
--Bertrand Russell
爱应该像一棵树，根深植于沃土，枝条伸向无垠苍穹。
--伯特兰·罗素

Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love, less blessed is hatred, but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other.
--Mark Rutherford
大多数人既没有真正的爱，也没有真正的恨，爱最值称贺，其次是恨，最该诅咒的是冷漠，因为它既不是爱也不是恨。
--马克·拉瑟福德

To try may be to die, but not to care is never to be bo123
--William Redfield
尝试或许会失去生命，但毫不在乎意味着永远没有生的希望。
--威廉·雷菲尔德

If we imagine any one to love, desire, or hate anything which we ourselves love, hate, or desire, by that very fact we shall love, hate, or desire it the more.
--Spinoza
假如我们想象有那么一个人热爱、憎恨或渴望我们所爱、所恨、所渴望的东西，因着这样一个事实，我们将爱得更深、恨得更多、渴望得更强烈。
--斯宾诺沙

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the steam of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
--Bertrand Russell
在这世界上，人要想快乐，尤其是当青春已逝之际，人必须认为自己不仅仅是生命行将结束的孤立个人，而且还是生命之溪的一部分，这溪从第一颗胚胎流起，一直流向遥远的未知的未来。
--伯特兰·罗素

Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
--Thomas Fuller
不要深究创伤，否则你会弄出一道新的伤口。
--托马斯·福勒

A theorist without practice is a tree without fruit, and a devotee without learning is a house without an entrance.
--Sa'di
没有实践的理论家是一颗不结果实的树，没有学识的爱好者是座没有入口的房子。
--萨迪

There is only one success──to be able to spend your life in your own way.
--Christopher Morley
世界只存在一种成功──做到以自己的方式度过一生。
--克里斯托弗·莫里

Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
--Havelock Ellis
痛苦和死亡是生命的一部分，拒绝痛苦和死亡就是拒绝生命。
--哈弗洛克·埃利斯

Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing seems impossible.
--Henry Ford
不断地思考未来，不断地想着多做事，会达到一种无所不能的精神状态。
--亨利·福特

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
--Publilius Syrus
不容变更的计划不是好计划。
--普布里利亚斯·西拉斯

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
--James Russell Lowell
孤独是成熟心灵的护士。
--詹姆斯·罗素·洛威尔

Isolation breeds conceit.
--Charles Dudley Warner
封闭自守滋生骄傲自满。
--查尔斯·达德利·华纳

He punishes himself who repents of his deeds.
--Publilius Syrus
后悔做过的事，就是惩罚自己。
--普布里利亚斯·西拉斯

Only those who have, receive.
--Joseph Roux
只有本身具备，才能接受。
--约瑟夫·鲁

I would rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.
--George Herbert
我宁愿骑驮着我走的驴而不愿骑扔下我的马。
--乔治·赫伯特

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
--Dostoevsky
最大的幸福是懂得不幸的根源。
--陀思妥耶夫斯基

The Unexamined life is not worth living.
--Socrates
没有被思考过的生活不值得过。
--苏格拉底

When we are restless we raise dust all about us and we forget the supreme truth that "We are."
--Tagore
我们躁动不安，扬起周围的尘土，此时我们忘记了至理：“我们活着。”
--泰戈尔

Every situation──nay, every moment──is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
--Goethe
每一个情景──不，每一时刻──都具有无限价值；因为它代表着整个永恒。
--歌德

*智慧

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called for by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
--Maurice Maeterlinck
当失去心爱的人时，我们抛洒悲苦的眼泪，那是因为我们想起了过去没有好好地深爱他们。
--莫里斯·梅特林克

The thought of the eternal efflorescence of music is comforting one, and comes like a messenger of peace in the midst of universal disturbance.
--Roman Rolland
在这普遍混乱中，音乐永远繁荣发展的想法令人欣慰，它仿佛是来自祥和安宁之境的使者。
--罗曼·罗兰

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
--W. H. Auden
最令人激动的节奏似乎很复杂，出人意外；最优美的旋律听起来简单自然。
--怀·休·奥登

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
--William James
智慧就是懂得该忽略什么的技巧。
--威廉·詹姆斯

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.
--Rousseau
青年是学习智慧之季，老年是实践智慧之时。
--卢梭

The wind-footed steed is broken down in his speed, whilst the camel-driver jogs on with his beast to the end of his journey.
--Sa'di
疾走如飞的骏马在快速行进中倒下，而赶骆驼者与骆驼缓缓而行却到达终点。
--萨迪

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
--John F. Kennedy
不要祈求轻松的生活，要祈祷成为更加坚强的人。
--约翰·弗·肯尼迪

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
--Henry Ward Beecher
权宜之计只为暂时，而原则则是长久之计。
--亨利·沃德·毕切

There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
--Walter Savage Landor
思想狭隘，愚昧无知和趾高气扬的最肯定标志莫过于远离和自己意见不一致的人们。
--瓦尔特·塞维杰·兰德

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.
--Bertrand Russell
没有公德社会不复存在，没有个人德行，个人的存在也失去价值。
--伯特兰·罗素

To speak less of one's self than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
--Montaigne
贬低自己不是谦虚，而是愚蠢；为掉价的报酬而接受贬低，是懦弱，是胆小。
--蒙田

Structure without life is dead. But life without structure is unseen.
--John Cage
没有生命力的结构是死的，而没有结构的生命则无法看见。
--约翰·盖奇

*时间
Time heals what reason cannot.
--Seneca
时间治愈理智无法抚平的伤痛。
--塞内加

Never do I hesitate to look squarely at the unexpected face that every passing hour unveils to us, and to sacrifice the false images of it formed in advance, however dear they may be.
--Roman Rolland
每一个流逝的时刻都为我们揭开面纱，露出一张不期而至的面庞，我毫不犹豫地正视她，抛弃先前不真实的幻想，不管它们多么宝贵。
--罗曼·罗兰

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
--John Bath
事物本身不具有价值；它的价值是从外部人为地界定从而归属于它的。
--约翰·巴思

How much of human life is lost in waiting!
--Emerson
多少生命在等待中浪费！
--爱默生

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.
--La Rochefoucauld
我们常常在软弱中变得坚强，在懦弱中练出胆量。
--拉罗什福科

Be not penny-wise: riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves; sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
--Bacon
不要斤斤计较：财富长有翅膀，有时会自己飞走，有时必须让它飞走以挣得更多的财富。
多少生命在等待中浪费！
--培根