And valuing no one's standard but his own, he is never tempted to practice that miserable pretense that less self-reliant people offer up as an hourly sacrifice to the god of their neighbor's opinion.

他只看重自己的准则，因此从不屑于装模作样；而那些不够自信的人，却时时把可悲的伪装献祭给邻人意见这尊神。