我不赞美亦不责备，我接受

威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆（W. Somerset Maugham），是英国著名剧作家和小说家，是20世纪上半叶最受欢迎的作家之一。

毛姆的父母在其10岁之前先后死去，后由伯父养大成人。毛姆小时候因身材矮小，说话结巴，在学校备受歧视和欺负，他因此变得孤僻敏感...

毛姆作品中的一些经典句子：

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.

我不赞美亦不责备，我接受。我是万物的尺度，是世界的中心。

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank, and independent.

一个人不需要多么富有，只需能保留尊严，工作不受阻，只要能做到慷慨、坦诚和独立。

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

若我总是瞻前顾后，既操心着眼下，又担心着未来，那生活就不值得继续了。其实，山穷水尽之时，总会柳暗花明。

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

有人爱人，就有人被爱。

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

苦难使人格变得高尚，这是不正确的；幸福有时可以这样，但很时候，苦难让人变得心胸狭隘、怀恨在心。

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

成功使人虚荣、自负和自满，这样的观点是不对的；恰恰相反，成功很大程度上使人谦虚、宽容和善良。失败才使人痛苦而残忍。

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

对于爱情和艺术而言，生命远不够长。

Men are always the same. Fear makes them cruel.

人都是一样的，恐惧使人残酷。

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

只有一件事是我可以肯定的，那就是，没有什么事情是肯定的。

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

考虑到人们的愚蠢行为和他们闲聊的愉快程度，也许他们多说少做，对世界会更好。

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

人至老年难以忍受的不是机能、精神和身体的缺陷，而是回忆的负担。