许多人逐步降低了个人标准，以赢得社会接受和生活的舒适感，这使人们感到痛苦的人拒绝拒绝妥协自己的精神理想，并寻求改善自己。
(Many people who have progressively lowered their personal standards in an attempt to win social acceptance and life's comforts bitterly resent those of philosophical bent who refuse to compromise their spiritual ideals and who seek to better themselves.)