译文:奉承的话顺从了人的内心容易让人高兴,直率的话不能接受让人容易发怒。赏析:奉承的话虽然好听,但能让人迷失自我,直率的话虽然逆耳,但能让人清醒。我们少听阿谀的谗言,多听直率的忠言。
人性的内涵不缺善性,而人性的需求则不能多添一分欲念。
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.