只有淺薄的人才瞭解自己丨了不起的文字（王爾德合集）
原標題：只有淺薄的人才瞭解自己丨了不起的文字（奧斯卡·王爾德合集）
有這麼一位絕世才子，谷歌地圖為他的墓地提供了特殊定位服務，以便千萬粉絲前往獻吻——在他的墓碑上留下脣印，是紀念他的專屬儀式，全球獨此一家。
他叫奧斯卡·王爾德，19世紀英國最偉大的作家及藝術家之一，以其劇作、詩歌、童話和小說聞名，唯美主義代表人物。他是天生的哲學家，也是玩世不恭的段子手，偶然還客串一下雞湯師。
他的文字時而一針扎心，時而毒舌辣評，時而又溫暖世人，這些文字背後的思維和洞察，是文案工作者的靈感寶庫。
每個人生來都是君王，但大多數在流亡中死去。
Everyone is born king, and most people die in exile.
經驗是每個人給自己的錯誤起的名字。
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
只有淺薄的人才瞭解自己。
Only the shallow know themselves.
不夠真誠是危險的，太過真誠則絕對是致命的。
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing,
and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
生活是世上最罕見的事情，大多數人只是存在，僅此而已。
To live is the rarest thing in the world.Most people exist, that is all.
世上只有一件事比被人議論更糟糕，那就是沒有人議論你。
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
女人的生活中只有一個真正的悲劇：她總在緬懷過去，卻必須活在未來。
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life.
The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
男人的面孔是他的自傳，女人的面容是她的幻想作品。
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
恭維話從來沒有讓女人繳械，但可以讓男人繳械。這就是性別差異。
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
That is the difference between the sexes.
女人是用來被愛的，不是用來被理解的。
Women are meant to be loved,not to be understood.
男人因疲倦而結婚，女人因好奇而結婚；最終他們都會失望。
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious;
both are disappointed.
逢場作戲和終身不渝之間的區別只在於逢場作戲稍微長一些。
The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that
the caprice lasts a little longer.
什麼是離婚的主要原因？
結婚。
What is the chief cause of divorce?
Marriage.
結婚是想象戰勝了理智，再婚是希望戰勝了經驗。
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
絕不應該相信說出自己真實年齡的女人。如果她把這都說出來了，那她什麼都會說。
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
時尚總是醜的難以容忍，所以每隔六個月我們都只好改一次。
Fashion is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable
that we have to alter it every six months.
敵人造成的困難很容易忍受，朋友取得的成功卻讓人很難忍受。
It is very easy to endure the difficulties of one's enemies.
It is the successes of one's friends that are hard to bear.
永遠寬恕你的敵人，沒有什麼能比這個更讓他們惱怒的了。
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
奚落是庸才對天才的頌歌。
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
紳士就是從不無心傷害別人感覺的人。
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
我們都生活在陰溝裡，但仍有人仰望星空。
We are all in the gutter,but some of us are looking at the stars.
我喜歡看戲，與人生相比，戲劇更加真實。
I love acting.It is so much more real than life.
定義一件東西，就意味限制了它。
To define is to limit.
把人分成好的與壞的是荒謬的，人要麼迷人，要麼乏味。
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad.
People are either charming or tedious.
對於忠告，你所能做的，就是把它奉送給別人，忠告從來就不是給自己準備的。
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
世上只有兩類悲劇，有些人總是不能遂願，而有些人總是心想事成。
There are only two tragedies in life:
one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
沒有人富有到可以贖回自己的過去。
No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
老年人相信一切，中年人懷疑一切，青年人什麼都懂。
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything,
and the young know everything.
悲觀主義者是這種人：當他可以從兩種罪惡中選擇時，他把兩種都選了。
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
借錢就要向悲觀主義者借，因為他們不會期待你還錢。
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won"t expect it back.
樂觀的基礎完全是恐懼。
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
年輕時我以為金錢是世界上最重要的東西，現在我老了，才知道的確如此。
When I was young , I used to think that money was the most important thing in life ,
now that I am old , I know it is.
一個憤世嫉俗的人知道所有東西的價格，卻不知道任何東西的價值。
What is a cynic?
A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
任何地方只要你愛它，它就是你的世界。
Any place you love is the world to you.
成為你自己，因為別的都有人做了。
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
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