True Nobility

   「我始終相信，開始在內心生活得更認真的人，也會開始生活得更簡單。在一個奢華浪費的年代，我希望能向世界表明，人類真正需要的東西是非常之少的。

   後悔自己的過錯，而且力求不再重蹈覆轍，這才是真正的悔悟。高於別人，並不高貴，真正的高貴應該是優於過去的自己。」--海明威

       In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.

       I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.

       To regret one's errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

黃子程，「海明威的人生哲學」，《星島日報》，29-5-2015