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

• 说苦难能使人格得到升华,这是不确切的;幸福有时倒能做到这一点,而苦难常会使人心胸狭窄,产生复仇的心理。英国小说家