句子使用 'merely' 强调程度的局限性，倒装状语 'for the majority of people' 放在句末以平衡结构并突出主体。
An individual's energy is limited and can only be allocated to social interactions. The cost of making new friends is often the inevitable distancing from some old ones.
Some people are famous for their thoughts, others for their skills, while many are famous simply for being famous.
When humanity's memory is poor, it repeats the mistakes of history; when its memory is good, it repeats those mistakes with precision.
History tells us that many victors are not deemed right because they were right, but rather because they won.
For the majority of people, hard work is merely for survival. Do not dress up this basic drive with the lofty justification of "striving for success."
一个人的精力是有限的，只能将其投入社交之中。结交新朋友的代价，往往意味着不得不疏远一些老朋友。
世间之人，有人以思想著称，有人以技艺闻名，而更多的人，仅仅以“著名”本身而闻名。
当人类的记忆力衰退时，便会重复历史的错误；而当记忆力恢复清晰时，则能精准无误地再次重蹈覆辙。
历史揭示了一个残酷的真相：许多胜利者之所以被视为正确，并非因为他们一开始就掌握了真理，而是因为他们最终取得了胜利。
对于绝大多数人来说，努力奋斗的目的仅仅是为了生存。不要给这种生存本能冠以“追求成功”那般冠冕堂皇的理由。