Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
执着于行为的对错是心智发展受阻的表现。
Let me say to you now that to do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult, and the most intellectual.
让我来告诉你们：什么都不做是世界上最困难的事——不仅最困难，而且最需要智慧。
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
按自己喜欢的方式生活不叫自私，要求别人按自己喜欢的方式生活才叫自私。
Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
责任是我们指望他人履行的东西，不是我们自己想履行的东西。
It is always more difficult to destroy than to create, and when what one has to destroy is vulgarity and stupidity, the task of destruction needs not merely courage but also contempt.
破坏永远比创造更困难。破坏粗俗愚蠢之物不仅需要勇气，还需要蔑视。
Dullness is the coming-of-age of seriousness.
严肃认真成熟了以后就变成了沉闷无趣。
When we are happy we are always good but when we are good we are not always happy.
当我们快乐时，我们总是善良的；当我们善良时，我们却未必快乐。
There is a fatality about good resolutions—they are always made too late.
良好的决心有一个致命的缺点——它们总是来得太迟。
I never put off tile tomorrow what I can possibly do-the day after.
能后天做的事我绝不明天完成。
All ways end at the same point... Disillusion.
所有道路都通向同一个终点——幻灭。
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
“经验”是人给自己所犯错误起的雅号。
One should never take sides in anything. Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
面对两方阵营时千万不要站边。一旦站边，人就会变得真诚恳切；再过不久，他会变得严肃认真、郑重其事。然后这个人就成了一个大闷蛋。
A mask tells us more than a face.
一副面具告诉我们的东西比一张脸孔更多。
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
在这个世界上，只有一件事情比遭人议论更加糟糕，那就是不被人议论。
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself.
一个好建议的唯一用处就是传授给别人。这些东西对自己从来没用的。
If there was less sympathy in the world there would be less trouble in the world.
这个世界上若能少几分同情，便能减少许多麻烦。
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
教育是个好东西。但有时我们应该记住：真正值得知晓的东西是没法教给别人的。
Gossip is charming!... History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
嚼舌头、说人闲话多有趣！历史就是八卦而已。而丑闻是因加入道德批判而变得无趣的闲话。
But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
劝穷人节俭既荒唐又侮辱人，因为那就跟劝快饿死的人少吃点一样。
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.
人人都愿意同情朋友的不幸，但忍受朋友的成功，只有天性纯良的人才做得到。
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
社会常常原谅罪犯，却从来不会宽恕做梦的人。