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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

  • -- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton 阿克顿

意见会改变，举止会改变，信仰会起起落落，但是道德律法是写在永恒的桌子上的。

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For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

对我来说，探索是通往内心的旅程，进入你自己的内心。我一直在想，在关键时刻我该怎么做?我会站起来做正确的事吗，即使我的每一根纤维都告诉我不是这样的?

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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

乍一看，似乎没有什么比人类行为的外在形式更不重要的了，然而，没有什么比这更值得人们重视的了:除了生活在一个没有自己礼仪的社会里，人们对一切都习以为常了。

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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

如果你们的教义和信条给了我自由，我就不会攻击它们。如果他们认为危险——如果他们断言怀疑是一种犯罪，那么我就会对他们进行全面的攻击，因为他们奴役了人类的思想。

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I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

我从来没有编过故事。我不做判断，我让听众做判断。当我讲到故事的结尾时，如果它有寓意，我会让听众自己去发现。

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Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

法律很容易受到知识分子或道德风尚的影响，然后它将其确认为我们最基本概念的命令。

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No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

当你需要帮助的时候，没有人会停下来帮助你，但是每个人都会把你不需要的意见强加给你。

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Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.

法律应该作为可接受行为的下限，而不是高尚行为的指南。

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Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.

期望和事实是人们通常无法区分的两种不同的东西。

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There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

相信我，诚实的怀疑比一半的信条更有信仰。

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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

礼貌只是你如何待人的一种正式表达。

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Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

一切已经存在的，都徘徊在永恒里。

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First we must teach the sense of duty, then the laws.

首先我们必须教导责任感，然后是法律。

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Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

被试探是一回事，跌倒又是另一回事。

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You can't even stand without risking to fall.

你甚至不能站着不冒摔倒的危险。

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We rise by lifting others.

我们通过提升他人而获得成功。

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