Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.

别妒忌成功，别怜悯失败，因为你不知道在灵魂的权衡中，什么算成功，什么算失败。

youdao

It's a pity that neither my teachers nor parents allow me to swim alone.

很遗憾，我的老师和父母都不允许我独自游泳。

youdao

For I have neither the knowledge nor the experience to achieve the greatness and already I have stumbled in ignorance and fallen into pools of self-pity. The answer is simple.

我既没有渊博的知识，又没有丰富的经验，况且，我曾一度跌入愚昧与自怜的深渊。答案很简单。

youdao

The latter would inspire neither admiration, nor terror, nor hatred, nor indifference, just pity.

ECONOMIST: France

There may have been pity behind her saying yes, but there was love, too: in my experience, you can't expect love to be unaffected by pity, nor would you want it to be.

NPR: Chapter 1