名人名言11句

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To care for wisdom and truth and improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honor and reputation.
——Socrates
注重智慧、真理和灵魂的提升远比追求金钱、荣誉和名望要好得多。
——苏格拉底

Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.
——George Washington
不要承担你完成不了的事，但一定要信守诺言。
——乔治·华盛顿

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
——Benjamin Franklin
不要出卖美德以换取财富，也不要用自由交换权力。
——本杰明·富兰克林

I would like to live to study, and not study to live.
——Francis Bacon
我愿意为了学习而活着，不愿意为了活着而学习。
——弗朗西斯·培根

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. He seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
——Abraham Lincoln
卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。他寻找未开拓的地区。
——亚伯拉罕·林肯

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.
——John Dryden
错误像浮在水面的稻草，要想寻找珍珠就得潜到它的下面。
—— 约翰·德莱顿

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
——Plato
体育运动如果是出于强迫，仍会有锻炼之效；但在强迫之下获得的知识，则不能植根于头脑中。
——柏拉图

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
——Helen Hayes
你从父母那里学到爱，学会笑，学会怎样走路。而打开书本，你将拥有翅膀。
——海伦·海斯

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
——William Osler
在科学上，功劳归于使全世界信服其想法的人，而不归于首先有这种想法的人。
——威廉·奥斯勒

Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
——Thomas Jefferson
不要因为便宜而去买你不需要的东西；对你而言它是昂贵的。
——托马斯·杰弗逊

Don't gild the lily.
——Shakespeare.
不要给百合花镀金（不要画蛇添足）。
——莎士比亚

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