Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

  • -- George Jean Nathan 内森

政治是庸人的消遣,当他们在政治上取得成功时,在更多庸人的眼里就变得重要了。

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

如果你想成功,失败的自由是至关重要的。大多数成功人士都会时不时地失败,而失败只是促使他们重新尝试成功,这是对他们力量的一种衡量。

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

对于一个有孩子的家庭来说,如果一切进行得相当顺利,那么毫无疑问,所有其他形式的成功和成就相比就失去了它们的重要性。

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

这是一个如何确保社会任何成员所知道的资源得到最佳利用的问题,其目的的相对重要性只有这些个人知道。

If at first you do succeed try to hide your astonishment.

如果一开始你确实成功了,试着隐藏你的惊讶。