One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man , with family , fortune , every thing in his favour , should think highly of himself . if i may so express it , he has a right to be proud . 这么优秀的一个青年，门第好，又有钱，样样都比人家强，也难怪他要自以为了不起，照我的说法，他有权利骄傲。 ”
More picturesque diseases , even when they are dangerous , and less dangerous diseases , particularly when they are the diseases of the rich , can be and very frequently are a source of snobbish self - importance 一些纵使有危险但较为别致的疾病，以及不太危险的病，特别是富人爱得的病，能够并常常是使人感到势利、自以为了不起的根源。
His wife visited for him , and this was the received thing in the world , where the weighty and multifarious occupations of the magistrate were accepted as an excuse for what was really only calculated pride , a manifestation of professed superiority - in fact , the application of the axiom , " pretend to think well of yourself , and the world will think well of you , " an axiom a hundred times more useful in society nowadays than that of the greeks , " know thyself , " a knowledge for which , in our days , we have substituted the less difficult and more advantageous science of knowing others 他的妻子代他去拜客，这已是社会上所公认的事了，他们以为法官工作繁重而谅解了他，实际上他却是出于一种傲慢的想法，这正是贵族的本质的确，他实践了“只要你自以为了不起，别人也就会以为你了不起”这句格言，这句格言在我们这个社会里比起希腊人的那句“认识你自己， ”实在是更有用，而我们却用那比较省力而更有利的“认识别人”取代了希腊人的这句格言。
