If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

如果你已经建造了空中楼阁,你的工作就不会白费;这是他们应该在的地方。现在把地基放在下面。

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Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

腐败有其自身的动机,必须深入研究这一现象,消除腐败存在的基础。

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

我们为什么要带着愤世嫉俗的愁眉苦脸,去努力摧毁他们的童话城堡呢?

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

没有法治,我们就无法建立一个国家的基础。

Easy to keep the castle that was never besieged.

要守住这座从未被围困过的城堡并不难。