January 2020
The key to everything is patience.
耐心是一切事情成败的关键。
The bitter must come before the sweet; and that also makes the sweet the sweeter.
苦应先于甜，会使甜更甜。
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I 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。
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
人生是花朵，爱情是花蜜。
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
要私下告诫朋友，但是要公开夸奖朋友。
Love is like a mirror: once broken, that ends it.
爱情好比镜子，一旦打破就难重圆。
A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
忠实的朋友是人生的良药。
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
友谊可能而且经常发展成爱情，但是爱情却永远不会下降为友谊。
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剩下的。
– Albert Einstein
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
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
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
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
谦虚不仅可以增添光彩，而且可以维护美德。
– Joseph Addison
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
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
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
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
实用的知识只有通过亲身体验才能学到。
– Samuel Smiles
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，经验像是一艘船上的尾灯，只照亮船驶过的航道。
– Samuel Coleridge
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
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
Honesty is the best policy.
诚实是最好的策略。
– Aesop
Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.
人品之于人，犹如芳香之于话。
– C.C.Schwab
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
信念是黎明之前，天还没亮时就能感觉到光明的鸟。
– Tagore
Character is the first and last word in success.
品德是成功的决定因素。
– Orison Marden
He conquers twice, who upon victory overcomes himself.
在获得胜利之后而能克制自己的人，获得了双重的胜利。
– Francis Bacon
Who partakes in another’s joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.
能分享他人的欢乐，比能分担他人的忧愁更为高尚。
– Johann Lavater
Love lives deep in the mind instead of residing in the lips.
爱情埋在心灵深处，并不居住在双唇之间。
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
二十岁是起支配作用的是意志，三十岁时是机智，四十岁时是判断。
The bitter must come before the sweet; and that also makes the sweet the sweeter.
苦应先于甜，会使甜更甜。
To realise the value of one hour, ask two lovers who are waiting to meet.
要体会到一个小时的价值，就去问一对等待见面的恋人。
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
比起我们对自己的私人评价，公众的看法不过是一个软弱的暴君。