Man is neither angel nor beast, and unhappily whoever wants to act the angel, acts the beast.

—Blaise Pascal, French thinker

人一半是天使，一半是魔鬼，他越是想扮演天使的角色，他就越像魔鬼。

——法國思想家布萊士·帕斯卡

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

—Eugene O'Neil, founder of modern American drama

我們生而破碎，用活著來修修補補。

——美國民族戲劇奠基人尤金·奧尼爾

Conquering adversity is not about surpassing others, but about seeing the true face of life,for life cannot mask itself within adversity, but reveals its true dimensions therein.

—Fu Peirong, philosopher

吃苦不是為了勝過別人，而是為了迎向生命的真實面貌。因為在苦難中，生命沒有任何遮蔽，可以展示其深度、廣度與高度。

——哲學(xué)家傅佩榮

There is no need to crowd people into your life. After all, if they can't get into your heart, you won't have a gang of ruffians in there ruffling your feathers.

—Mu Xin, author

不必把太多人請進生命里。若他們走進不了你內(nèi)心，就只會把你的生命攪擾得擁擠不堪。

——作家木心

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet

要想做些事，讓自己孤立是最好的方法。

——德國詩人約翰·沃爾夫?qū)ゑT·歌德

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. The desire for approbation is perhaps the most deeply seated instinct of civilized man.

—William Somerset Maugham, British writer

有人說他毫不在乎別人對他的看法，這多半是自欺欺人。事事要邀獲別人批準，或許是文明人類最根深蒂固的一種天性。

——英國作家威廉·薩默塞特·毛姆