Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
執著於行為的對錯是心智發展受阻的表現。
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.
讓我來告訴你們：什麽都不做是世界上最困難的事——不僅最困難，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.
按自己喜歡的方式生活不叫自私，要求別人按自己喜歡的方式生活才叫自私。
Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
責任是我們指望他人履行的東西，不是我們自己想履行的東西。
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.
破壞永遠比創造更困難。破壞粗俗愚蠢之物不僅需要勇氣，還需要蔑視。
Dullness is the coming-of-age of seriousness.
嚴肅認真成熟了以後就變成了沉悶無趣。
When we are happy we are always good but when we are good we are not always happy.
當我們快樂時，我們總是善良的；當我們善良時，我們卻未必快樂。
There is a fatality about good resolutions—they are always made too late.
良好的決心有一個致命的缺點——它們總是來得太遲。
I never put off tile tomorrow what I can possibly do-the day after.
能後天做的事我絕不明天完成。
All ways end at the same point... Disillusion.
所有道路都通向同一個終點——幻滅。
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
“經驗”是人給自己所犯錯誤起的雅號。
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.
麵對兩方陣營時千萬不要站邊。一旦站邊，人就會變得真誠懇切；再過不久，他會變得嚴肅認真、鄭重其事。然後這個人就成了一個大悶蛋。
A mask tells us more than a face.
一副麵具告訴我們的東西比一張臉孔更多。
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
在這個世界上，隻有一件事情比遭人議論更加糟糕，那就是不被人議論。
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself.
一個好建議的唯一用處就是傳授給別人。這些東西對自己從來沒用的。
If there was less sympathy in the world there would be less trouble in the world.
這個世界上若能少幾分同情，便能減少許多麻煩。
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
教育是個好東西。但有時我們應該記住：真正值得知曉的東西是沒法教給別人的。
Gossip is charming!... History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
嚼舌頭、說人閑話多有趣！曆史就是八卦而已。而醜聞是因加入道德批判而變得無趣的閑話。
But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
勸窮人節儉既荒唐又侮辱人，因為那就跟勸快餓死的人少吃點一樣。
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.
人人都願意同情朋友的不幸，但忍受朋友的成功，隻有天性純良的人才做得到。
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
社會常常原諒罪犯，卻從來不會寬恕做夢的人。