<Though>we do not like to hear our faults
from others, it does not mean that we are not conscious of them.
<The more> conscious we are of them,
<the less> we like to hear of them
from others, and <the more> we like
to hear from ourselves.
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You will find it less easy (=hard) to uproot faults than choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults, still less of others... -
In this age of machinery, 在這個機器化的年代 when the man 當人類 is getting less and less important, 正在变得愈來愈不重要的時候 and the machine more and more... -
In the world, there is no creature {with which man has surrounded himself }{that seems so much like a product of civilization...