释义：怠慢他所尊敬的人会招致凶祸，表面上关系密切而内心疏远的人会陷入孤立，亲近进谗言的人而疏远忠诚正直的人会导致灭亡。这是对人际关系中不良行为后果的警示。

The loneliness of command is inevitable.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.