Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

要像太阳或大海一样仁慈,但是如果你作为一个理性存在的权利被牢牢地钉住,那就死在你领土的第一寸土地上。

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We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are.

我们需要一件有两个口袋的外套。一个口袋里有灰尘,另一个口袋里有金子。我们需要一件有两个口袋的外套来提醒我们是谁。

Parents drinking is the reason you came into the world, and if we didn't keep doing it then, by God, it would be the reason you went back out of it.

父母酗酒是你来到这个世界的原因,如果我们不继续酗酒,上帝作证,这将是你离开这个世界的原因。

It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

众所周知,最激进的革命者在革命后的第一天就会变成保守派。

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

对我来说,左派意味着与不公正和不平等作斗争,但最重要的是,我们想过得好。

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

勤奋的学者是爱自己的人,他渴望有理由为自己鼓掌和爱自己。

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

有些价值必须是普遍的,例如人权和每个人的平等价值。

I was right then, I'm right now. I think time has proven me right.

我当时是对的,现在也是。我想时间证明我是对的。

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

人类对人类的不人道使无数的人哀悼!

Self-respect knows no considerations.

自尊无需考虑。

Take it easy -- but take it.

放轻松——但是放轻松。