The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

只要对历史稍有了解,就会发现,强大的共和国是最好战、最肆无忌惮的国家。

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My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home - earless, toothless vagabonds - to teach me the arts of the old bagarre.

我父亲来自知识分子和勤奋的家庭,而不是斗殴者的家庭。所以我不得不去更远的地方,我把各种无耻的家伙带回家——没有耳朵,没有牙齿的流浪汉——教我老巴嘎尔人的艺术。

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

智慧不容许任何事物不永远如此美好;没有人想要幸福,但他只需要拥有自己内心的幸福;想成为伟大或有权势的人,必须掌握自己。

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

人性中有很多美好的东西,人们越了解彼此就越喜欢对方,这为我们提供了另一种途径,我们可以努力促进世界的和平。

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

作为一名政治家,你可以从对世界的广泛了解和拥有一些外部利益所带来的一定程度的独立性中提高自己的效率。

Like fore, you will blaze through the forest... but beware even the most powerful flames can be defeated by water.

像以前一样,你会在森林里燃烧……但要注意,即使是最强大的火焰也可能被水扑灭。

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

我认为,各国不能对种族清洗和种族灭绝袖手旁观。

Large republics seem to be essentially and inherently aggressive.

大共和国似乎在本质上和本质上都具有侵略性。

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

什么诗不能拯救民族和人民?