December 2020
He conquers twice, who upon victory overcomes himself.
在获胜之后而能克制自己的人，获得了双重的胜利。
– Francis Bacon
Character is the first and last word in success.
品德是成功的决定因素。
– Orison Marden
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
信念是黎明前、天还没亮时就能感觉到光明的鸟。
– Tagore
Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.
人品之于人，犹如芳香之于花。
– C.C.Schwab
Honesty is the best policy.
诚实是最好的策略。
– Aesop
What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
一个人年轻时学识多少无关紧要，重要的是懂得如何去学习。
– Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
教育之于心灵，犹如雕刻之于大理石。
– Joseph Addison
To most men, experience is like the stern light of a ship which illuminates only the track it has passed.
对于大多数人，经验像是一般船上的尾灯，只照亮船驶过的航道。
– Semuel Coleridge
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
实用的只是只有通过亲身体验才能学到。
– Samuel Smiles
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books.
经验是思想之子，思想是行动之子，了解他人不可以书本为据。
– Victor Hugo
Nature is kind of a loving mother, but also a butcher in cold blood.
自然不仅是慈爱的母亲，也是冷血的屠夫。
– Victor Hugo
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
人生在世首要的大事是要保持灵魂的高洁。
– Gustave Flaubert
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
谦虚不仅可以增添光彩，而且可以维持美德。
– Joseph Addison
Only he can judge of matter’s great and high whose soul is likewise.
只有心灵伟大而崇高的人，才能评价伟大而崇高的事物。
– Michel de Montaigne
On earth there is nothing great but man; in the man there is nothing but mind.
地球上人最伟大，人类中心灵最伟大。
– Alexander Hamilton
Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
读书使人充实，谈话使人敏捷，写作使人准确。
– Francis Bacon
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
教育是忘记了在学校学到的一切之后所剩下的。
– Albert Einstein
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
友谊可能而且经常发展为爱情，但是爱情却永远不会下降为友谊。
A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
忠实的朋友是人生的良药。
Love is like a mirror: once broken, that ends it.
爱情好比镜子，一旦打破就难重圆。
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
要私下告诫朋友，但要公开夸奖朋友。
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
人生是花朵，爱情是花蜜。
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
我爱你，不是因为你是谁，而是因为在你面前我可以是谁。
The bitter must come before the sweet; and that alse makes the sweet the sweeter.
苦应先于甜，会使甜更甜。
The key to everything is patience.
耐心是一切事情成败的关键。
No road of flowers leads to glory.
没有一条通往荣誉的道路是铺满鲜花的。
Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
行为发展成习惯，习惯发展为性格，性格伴随人的一生。
The world has changed, and we must change with it.
世界已经改变了，我们必须同时改变。
We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
对一件事情我们必先接受它，才能改变它。
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
幸福就是时时刻刻都以仁爱、善良和感恩来生活的精神体验。
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
人生的伟大目的不在于知而在于行。