The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
人生的秘密在于，永远都要处之泰然。

Life is much too improtant a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
人生是如此重大的事情，还是不要严肃讨论为妙。

The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a  garden. It ends with Revelations.
人生之书开始于男女在花园的邂逅，终结于彼此之间的相互了解。

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
一个人经历的人生往往并不是他想要经历的人生。

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist ,that is all.
生存是世界上最稀罕之物，绝大多数人不过是存在罢了。

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
做自己生活旁观者的人，实际上是在逃避生活的苦痛。

Life is never fair... And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
生活从来就不公平……或许对我们大多数人而言，这倒是件好事情。

... the world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it.
世界本是由傻子组成的，智者不该在此生存。

There are few things easier than to live abdly and to die well.
几乎就没有比糟糕地活着以及好好地死去还要容易的事情了。

One can live for years sometimes without living at all,and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
一个人可以行尸走肉地活上若干年月，随后在瞬时间绽放出生命的光彩。

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
野心是失败者的最后一道庇荫。

Give me the luxuries, and anyone can have the necessaries.
把奢侈品都拿给我，这样你们都能获得必需品了。

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has never been able to find its way.
人文主义没有出路，因为方向不明。

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and thinks too much to be beautiful.
我们生活在一个因阅读过多而缺乏智慧，因思考太多而失去优雅的时代。

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
我爱表演。表演比生活真实多了。

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
应该体味生活的色彩，但不要记住生活的细节。细节往往太平庸了。

...when the Gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
每当上帝想要责罚我们时，他便会回应我们的祈祷。

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life it to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
我们顶多拥有一种重要的人生经验，而人生的秘密在于它会尽可能多地复制这种经验。

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sexual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill with new forms, and give ti progerss, and variety and change.
就像自然选择一样，伦理学使存在成为可能。就像性别选择一样，美学使生命充满爱和惊奇，赋予它新的样式，促使它发展、分化和改变。

Misfortunes one can endure- they come from outside,they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults- ah!- there is the sting of life.
一个人可以承受不幸——来自外部的，偶发的不幸。但是他将会自己的过失而受苦。啊！这生命的绳索啊！

To believe is very dull.To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die.
信仰是极其乏味的，怀疑则引人入胜。要想活着就得保持警惕，要想去死则堕入安乐之乡。

In her dealings with man Destiny never closes her accounts.
在和男人的交往过程中，连老天都无法阻止她的盘算。

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
世界是一个舞台，上面正在演着一场蹩脚的戏。

Good taste is the excuse i've always given for leading such a bad life.
我那高贵的品味是我为什么经常过得如此糟糕的理由。

... try as we may cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their appearances.
即使努力我们也不能把落下的事情拉到现实中来。其中最可怕的原因可能就在于在事物的表面之外根本就没有什么现实。

Life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.
生命在形式上具有可怕的缺陷。它的灾难起始于错误的道路，错误的人。它在悲喜交织的高潮处成为荒诞，这是一场异常恐怖的灾难。

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
我总是被自己惊得目瞪口呆。这是我生命中唯一有价值的事。

I wrote when I did know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.
过去我不懂生活，我却在书写着生活。现在我懂得了，也就不再写了。生活不是拿来写的，是拿来生活的。

The world is simply divided into two classes- those who believe the incredible, like the public- and those who do the improbable.
世界可以被简单划为两个阶层——一个阶层相信不可能发生的事情，如广大民众；另一个阶层则只是在做不可能发生的事情。

The world has always laughed at its own tragedies,that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them.
世界总是嘲笑自己的悲剧，这也是唯一能够容忍这种悲剧的办法（深刻之极，译者注）。

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
记忆是我们随身携带的日记本。

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
不满，这是个人或国家前进的第一步。

We are each our own deivl, and we make this world our hell.
我们每个人都是自己的魔鬼，我们使世界成为了地狱。

In Paris one can lose one's time most delightfully; but one can never lose one's way.
在巴黎，每个人都能愉快地失去自己的时间，但绝不会失去自己的方式。

But the past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
过去不重要，现在也不重要。我希望我们能掌握未来。因为过去不可为，现在不该为，而将来的希望在于现在的艺术家如何为之。

One can survivie everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.
人可以拯救一切，除了死亡；人可以打倒一切，除了名望。