名人名言(中英文对照)

-The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.--Tagore拒人千里源于分裂的意识，宽容大度源于统一和谐意识。

--泰戈尔A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.--Homer无所事事亦难逃一死，不如奋斗终生。

--荷马Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.--Bacon不要寻求令人称羡的财富，应当追求这样的境界：对财富正当地获取，清醒地使用，愉快地施舍并能知足地放弃。

--培根A life will be successful or not according to as the power of accommodation is equal to or unequal to the strain of fusing and adjusting internal and external changes.--Samuel Butler生活是否成功依赖于一个人的适应能力能否胜任融合和调节内部及外界变化这一重担。

--塞缪尔·小巴特勒If you want to slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself.--George Eliot你想要钻入一个圆洞，你就必须将自己变为球形。

--乔治·爱略特The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.--Aristotle人们泰然自若地承受接踵而至的灾难，并不是由于感觉迟钝，而是由于具有崇高和英勇的品质，这时，尽管在厄运中，心灵美仍放射出灿烂光辉。

--亚里士多德In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.--Boethius在各种逆境中，人们感受到的最大痛苦莫过于回忆起曾经拥有的幸福。

--波伊提乌斯Adversity is the first path to truth.--Byron逆境是通往真理的第一条路。

--拜伦Advice is like snow, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.--Samuel Taylor Coleridge忠告就像雪花，飘落得越轻柔，就越能持久，也越能深深地潜入人心。

--塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder: but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.--William Thackeray看见一对年轻人相亲相爱不足为奇，然而看到一对这样的老人确是人间最美的景致。

--威廉·萨克雷It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy, but he who has shown the most forbearance and the better temper.--Samuel Butler辩论中得分最高的并非一语中的的人，而是显出最大耐心，更具涵养的人。

--塞缪尔·巴特勒The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. --Joseph Joubert争辩或讨论理应着眼于从中获益而不是非分出胜负不可。

--约瑟夫·尧伯The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.--Aristotle一切技艺都与创造有关，运用技艺就是研究如何创造某种可以创造的东西。

创造这种东西的始点在创制者中，而不是在被创制物中。

--亚里士多德Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.--Hans Hofmann艺术与科学在物质生活领域构成平衡，并且拓宽经验世界。

艺术导致对生活更为深刻的思考，因为它本身乃是情感的深层表现。

--汉斯·霍夫曼You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.--George Bernard Shaw你在镜中看到自己的容貌；在艺术作品中见到自己的灵魂。

--肖伯纳It constantly happens that the arts influence one another, that they intermingle, or that, as a result of their natural evolution, they overflow their boundaries and invade the domains of neighbouring arts. Now it is music that would become painting, now painting that would become music.--Roman Rolland各种艺术形式经常互相影响，互相融合，或者作为自然演化的结果，它们超越各自的边界，侵入邻近的艺术形式的领域。

时而音乐变成了绘画，时而绘画变成了音乐。

--罗曼·罗兰Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.--Pablo Picasso绘画是盲人的职业，他不画所见之物，而画所感之物，画他就看到的事物向自己倾吐的感受。

--巴勃罗·毕加索The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.--George Bellows理想的艺术家通晓一切，感知一切，经历一切。

他怀着惊讶获取经验，并以创作欲来满足他的惊奇。

--乔治·贝洛斯First, say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. --Epictetus首先默默告诉自己想成为什么样的人，然后再着手必须做的事情。

--爱比克泰德People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.--Edgar Waston Howe人们致力于力所不及的事情的同时，往往忽略了力所能及的事情。

--埃得加·沃斯顿·豪Beauty hath no true glass, except it be/In the sweet privacy of loving eyes. --James Russell Lowell美不在镜前显现／只隐于含情脉脉的眉目之间。

--詹姆斯·罗素·洛威尔Such is beauty ever,──neither in Rome nor in Athens, but whenever there is a soul to admire.--Thoreau美既不在罗马也不在雅典，而是深藏于每一颗欣赏美的心灵，这才是永恒的美。

--梭罗Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.--Norman Douglas学会培养富有激情的想象，如此你将发现别人忽视而错过的美。

--诺曼·道格拉斯The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.--Seneca赋予我们生命的那一刻又开始将生命带走。

--塞内加In difficult situations when hope seems feeble, the boldest plans are safest. --Livy处于希望渺茫的困境中，最大胆的计划反而最可靠。