孔子：君子易事而难说也……；小人难事而易说也。
The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.

埃里希·弗洛姆：幼稚的爱遵循这样的原则：“我去爱是因为我被爱。” 成熟的爱遵循这样的原则：“我被爱是因为我去爱。” 不成熟的爱是：“我爱你是因为我需要你。”成熟的爱是：“我需要你是因为我爱你。”
Infantile love follows the principle: 'I love because I am loved.' Mature love follows the principle: 'I am loved because I love.' Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'

艾尔弗雷德・诺思・怀特海：进步的艺术是：在变化中有秩序，在秩序中有变化。
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

杰佛逊·戴维斯：不要对谦卑者傲慢，也不要对傲慢者谦卑。
Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.

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齐格·齐格拉尔：你不必开始于伟大，但你必须开始去伟大。
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

W·萨默塞特·毛姆：赴晚宴时，要吃的聪明，不用吃的太好；要说的好，不用说的太聪明。
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

托马斯·赫胥黎: 尽可能广泛地涉猎各门学问，并且尽可能深入地择一钻研。
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

菲利普斯·布鲁克斯：不要祈求能力所能胜任的任务，要祈求能胜任任务的能力。
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.

西里尔·康诺利：为自我而不是迎合公众的写作，要胜于迎合公众而不是为自我的写作。
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

F·司各特·菲茨杰拉德： 你不写作时因为你想要说些什么，你写作时因为你不得不说些什么。
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.

G.·K·却斯特顿： 一个渴求知识的人去读一本书，一个懒散的人拿一本书来读，这两者之间有很大的区别。
There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

山姆·尤因：你在工作中所投入的时间量并不算数，真正算数的是你在一定时间中所投入的工作量。
It's not the hours you put in your work that count, it's work you put in the hours.

埃德加·沃森·豪：男人让衣服适合他，女人让自己适合衣服。
 A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.

海伦·罗兰：对女人来说，第一吻只是开始的结局；对男人来说，这却是预示结局的开始。
To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end.

彼得德·弗里斯： 结婚的好处并不在于成人可生养孩子, 而在于孩子可助人成熟。
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

坎普滕的托马斯：聪明的恋人不在乎爱人所给的礼物，而在乎给礼物人的爱。
A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.

威廉·莎士比亚：啊，威力无穷的爱情！时而，它使野兽 变成人；时而，它使人变成野兽。
O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.

约翰·丘顿·柯林斯：我们一生中半数的错误都来自于我们应该去思考的那些感觉，以及我们应该去感觉到的那些思考。
Half of our mistakes in life arises from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

H·L·门肯：愚人恒信，信人恒愚。
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

马克·吐温：实而不名, 胜于名而不实。
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

哈利勒·纪伯伦: 当你爱的时候，你不要说“上帝在我心中”，却要说“我在上帝心中”。不要想你能引导爱的路程，因为对于爱，若是它觉得你值得，它就引导你。
When you love you should not say, 'God is in my heart,' but rather, 'I am in the heart of God.' And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.