只有浅薄的人才了解自己丨了不起的文字（王尔德合集）
原标题：只有浅薄的人才了解自己丨了不起的文字（奥斯卡·王尔德合集）
有这么一位绝世才子，谷歌地图为他的墓地提供了特殊定位服务，以便千万粉丝前往献吻——在他的墓碑上留下唇印，是纪念他的专属仪式，全球独此一家。
他叫奥斯卡·王尔德，19世纪英国最伟大的作家及艺术家之一，以其剧作、诗歌、童话和小说闻名，唯美主义代表人物。他是天生的哲学家，也是玩世不恭的段子手，偶然还客串一下鸡汤师。
他的文字时而一针扎心，时而毒舌辣评，时而又温暖世人，这些文字背后的思维和洞察，是文案工作者的灵感宝库。
每个人生来都是君王，但大多数在流亡中死去。
Everyone is born king, and most people die in exile.
经验是每个人给自己的错误起的名字。
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
只有浅薄的人才了解自己。
Only the shallow know themselves.
不够真诚是危险的，太过真诚则绝对是致命的。
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing,
and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
生活是世上最罕见的事情，大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。
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议论更糟糕，那就是没有人议论你。
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
女人的生活中只有一个真正的悲剧：她总在缅怀过去，却必须活在未来。
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传，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.
恭维话从来没有让女人缴械，但可以让男人缴械。这就是性别差异。
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
That is the difference between the sexes.
女人是用来被爱的，不是用来被理解的。
Women are meant to be loved,not to be understood.
男人因疲倦而结婚，女人因好奇而结婚；最终他们都会失望。
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious;
both are disappointed.
逢场作戏和终身不渝之间的区别只在于逢场作戏稍微长一些。
The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that
the caprice lasts a little longer.
什么是离婚的主要原因？
结婚。
What is the chief cause of divorce?
Marriage.
结婚是想象战胜了理智，再婚是希望战胜了经验。
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
绝不应该相信说出自己真实年龄的女人。如果她把这都说出来了，那她什么都会说。
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
时尚总是丑的难以容忍，所以每隔六个月我们都只好改一次。
Fashion is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable
that we have to alter it every six months.
敌人造成的困难很容易忍受，朋友取得的成功却让人很难忍受。
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.
永远宽恕你的敌人，没有什么能比这个更让他们恼怒的了。
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
奚落是庸才对天才的颂歌。
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
绅士就是从不无心伤害别人感觉的人。
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
我们都生活在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。
We are all in the gutter,but some of us are looking at the stars.
我喜欢看戏，与人生相比，戏剧更加真实。
I love acting.It is so much more real than life.
定义一件东西，就意味限制了它。
To define is to limit.
把人分成好的与坏的是荒谬的，人要么迷人，要么乏味。
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad.
People are either charming or tedious.
对于忠告，你所能做的，就是把它奉送给别人，忠告从来就不是给自己准备的。
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
世上只有两类悲剧，有些人总是不能遂愿，而有些人总是心想事成。
There are only two tragedies in life:
one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
没有人富有到可以赎回自己的过去。
No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
老年人相信一切，中年人怀疑一切，青年人什么都懂。
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything,
and the young know everything.
悲观主义者是这种人：当他可以从两种罪恶中选择时，他把两种都选了。
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
借钱就要向悲观主义者借，因为他们不会期待你还钱。
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won"t expect it back.
乐观的基础完全是恐惧。
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
年轻时我以为金钱是世界上最重要的东西，现在我老了，才知道的确如此。
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.
一个愤世嫉俗的人知道所有东西的价格，却不知道任何东西的价值。
What is a cynic?
A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
任何地方只要你爱它，它就是你的世界。
Any place you love is the world to you.
成为你自己，因为别的都有人做了。
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
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