In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

  • -- Adam Ferguson 亚当·弗格森

在每一个商业国家,尽管自命享有平等权利,但少数人的提高必然会使多数人感到沮丧。

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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

对于一个优越的种族,作为人类对超凡圣洁和美德的自命不凡,似乎……荒谬。

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

很难判断什么会取得商业上的成功,什么不会。

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

一个没有变革手段的国家,也就没有保护它的手段。

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

每个厨师都必须学会如何管理国家。

I didn't really like doing commercials.

我真的不喜欢做广告。