英语翻译

问题描述:

英语翻译
Never imagine yourself (not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been) was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
这句话怎么翻译?

不要对自己有不切实际的幻想(不要沉迷于对自己的想象).(认为)自己应该以什么样的形象出现在他人的面前而不是现实中的样子.