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To care for wisdom and truth and improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honor and reputation.

——Socrates

注重智慧、真理和灵魂的进步远比追求金钱、荣誉和名声要好得多。

——苏格拉底

Undertake not what you cannot perform,but be careful to keep your promise.

——George Washington

不要承担你完成不了的事，但一定要信守诺言。

——乔治·华盛顿

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

——Benjamin Franklin

不要出卖美德以换取财富，也不要用自由交换权力。

——本杰明·富兰克林

I would like to live to study, and not study to live.

——Francis Bacon

我愿意为了学习而活着，不愿意为了活着而学习。

——培根

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. He seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

——Abraham Lincoln

卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。

—— 林肯

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.

——John Dryden

错误就像浮在水面的稻草；要想寻找珍珠就得潜到他的下面。

—— 约翰·德莱顿

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

——Plato

体育运动如果是出于强迫，不会有害于身体，但在强迫之下获得的知识，不能保留在头脑中。

—— 柏拉图

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

——Helen Hayes

你从父母那里学到爱，学到笑，学到怎样走路。可是一打开书本，你会发现你有了翅膀。

——海斯

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

——William Osler

在科学上，功劳归于使全世界信服的人，而不归于首先有这种想法的人。

——威廉·奥斯勒

Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

——Thomas Jefferson

不要买虽然便宜但你并不需要的东西；因为它对你而言是非常昂贵的。

——托马斯·杰弗逊

Don't gild the lily.

——Shakespeare.

不要给百合花镀金/画蛇添足。

——莎士比亚

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

——Mark Twain

只凭一句赞美的话我就可以充实地活上两个月。

——马克·吐温

It is no use doing what you like ; you have got to like what you do .

——Winston Churchill

不能爱哪行才干哪行，要干哪行爱哪行。

——丘吉尔

There is no situation in life but has its advantages and

pleasures provided we will but take it as a joke when we

find it.

——Washington Irving

人世间的任何境遇都有其优点和乐趣，只要我们愿意接受现实。

——华盛顿·欧文

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another ，

not because he does not feel them,

but because he is a man of high and heroic temper．

——Aristotle

人们泰然自若地承受接踵而至的灾难，

并不是由于感觉迟钝，

而是由于具有崇高和英勇的品质，

这时，尽管在厄运中，心灵美仍放射出灿烂光辉。

——亚里士多德

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation on how it shall be spent.

——Samuel Johnson

人生不长，切不可花费太多的时间去考虑应该怎样度过这一辈子。

——塞缪尔·约翰逊

Laziness is like a lock, which bolts you out of the storehouse of information and makes you an intellectual starveling.

——Bernard Shaw

懒惰就象一把锁，锁住了知识的仓库，使你的智力变得匮乏。

——萧伯纳

Always bear in mind that :

your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

——Abraham Lincoln

永远记住：你自己的取得成功的决心比什么都重要。

——林肯

Joys are our wings, sorrows are our spurs.

——Richter

欢乐是我们的双翼， 悲痛是我们的动力。

——里克特

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

——Issac Asimoy

如果勇敢的正视困难， 困难就会消失， 这一直是我的人生哲学。

——艾萨克·阿西莫艾

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

——Henry Ford

做好准备是成功的首要秘诀。

——亨利·福特

Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of life.

——Goethe

平静中产生天才，生活激流中创造个性。

——歌德

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

——Robert Frost

教育就是要使人具备一种能力， 可以听到任何话都不动怒或丧失自信。

——罗伯特·弗罗斯特

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself.

——E Gibbon

每个人都接受两种教育， 一种来自别人，另一种更重要的来自自己。

——吉朋

The most important lesson you can learn from winning is that you can.

——Dave Weinbaum

从获胜中能得到的最重要的一点是你能获胜。

——戴夫·温鲍姆

Absence to love is what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small; it inflames the great.

——Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

离别之于爱情好比风之于火，它能将小火熄灭，使大火熊熊燃烧。

——比西·拉比旦.R.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

——Joseph Addison

知足是人生在世最大的幸事。

——爱迪生

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

——Benjamin Franklin

要想知道钱的价值，就想办法去借钱试试。

——富兰克林

If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.

——Thomas Edison

如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友，以经验为参谋，以谨慎为兄弟，以希望为哨兵。

——爱迪生

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.

——Samuel Johnson

健康当然比金钱更为重要，因为我们所赖以获得金钱的就是健康。

——塞缪尔·约翰逊

That man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest.

——Henry David Thoreau

能处处寻求快乐的人才是最富有的人。

——大卫·梭罗

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