Me was composed of stories, of cravings, of strivings, of desires of the future.

我由故事组成，由渴望，奋斗组成，由对未来的期望组成。

Such laudable and honorable strivings are the only real ways to make profit honestly.

这种正当和值得赞赏的努力就是诚实谋利的正确途径。

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

要远避无知的辩论和家谱的空谈以及纷争，并因律法而起的争竞，因为这都是虚妄无益的。

Titus 3 : 9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

多 3 ： 9 要远避无知的辩论和家谱的空谈以及纷争，并因律法而起的争竞，因为这都是虚妄无益的。

To give his true biography is to exhibit the nature and the unfolding of German art, that comes to completion in him and is exhausted in him, - to comprehend it in all its strivings and its failures.

写这部真实的传记为的是展示德国艺术自然的流变，即在他这里完成了哪些和完结了哪些，理解这些艺术的诉求和失败。