And there is a self-enforcing loop between the two, where helping others helps ourselves; and helping ourselves, in turn, helps others.

两者间有自我实施的循环，帮助他人就是帮助自己;,帮助自己继而帮助他人。

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And they continue to support or to practice self-esteem as indiscriminate praise, ultimately hurting more than helping.

他们依然认为,提升自尊就要不加区别地赞扬，这最终造成的伤害大于帮助。

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And what the Republic tries to do is to offer us strategies, maybe we might even call it a therapy, Thumos for dealing with thumos, for submitting it to the control of reason and helping us to achieve some level of balance, of self-control and moderation.

而《理想国》尝试做的是,提供我们策略，而我们甚至能称之为疗法，用以处理，让它接受理性的控制,并助我们达到某种程度的平衡，介于自控与节制之间。

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