Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

  • -- Barbara W. Tuchman 芭芭拉·W·图赫曼

合理的命令很容易遵守;形成纪律习惯的是反复无常、官僚化或简单愚蠢的要求。

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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

时间会消磨和减少一切,它会增加和增加善行,因为慷慨地给予一个通情达理的人的善行,会通过高尚的思想和记忆不断地增长。

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

理性的人适应周围的世界;不讲理的人使世界适应他们。不讲道理的人改变了世界。