It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

  • -- Francesco Petrarca 彼特拉克

升为宝座,比生在宝座上更尊贵。福兮福所倚,福兮福所倚。

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

凡是有钱的单身汉,总想娶位太太,这已经成了一条举世公认的真理。

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

我要自己判断事情;我认为,错误地判断比完全不判断更光荣。

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

求你给我六句话,是极尊贵人所写的,我就可以在这六句话里找个借口把他挂起来。

It's good fortune that we walk backwards into the future, that present and past are all we see.

幸运的是,我们回到了未来,现在和过去是我们所看到的一切。