Translation for "self-regard" to spanish
Self-regard
noun
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noun
I’m not interested.” I’ve got to hold on to some bit of dignity, he thought, at least a shred of self-regard.
«He de conservar un poco de dignidad —pensó—. Un poco de respeto por mí mismo.»
She let herself go toward that refuge from self-regard with feelings of relief and gratitude.
Con una sensación de alivio y agradecimiento se dejó ir hacia aquel refugio de dignidad.
To love that self, to be covetous of honour for it, to indulge its appetite for virtue and noble deeds; to prefer an hour of glory closed by death, to a slothful life; to reach for the lion’s share of moral dignity: there lies the fulfilling self-regard.
La verdadera realización del amor propio está en amarse a si mismo, en ser indulgente con los apetitos y considerarlos como virtudes y proezas nobles, en preferir la muerte después de una hora de gloria que vivir una vida ociosa, en esforzarse por compartir la dignidad moral del león.
This might be Cicero’s first glimpse, really, of an authentically academic setting, the destination toward which his life was pitched: a miniaturized world craven with self-regard, unimpressive except to those who read the palace codes, and sublimely oblivious to the outside.
Quizá aquel fuera el primer vistazo de Cicero a un entorno académico de verdad, el destino hacia el que se encaminaba su vida: un mundo en miniatura anhelante de dignidad, mediocre salvo para quienes entendían los códigos palaciegos y absolutamente ajeno al exterior.
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