People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

  • -- Thomas Babington Macaulay 麦考莱

被法律压垮的人没有希望,只有权力。如果法律是他们的敌人,他们就会成为法律的敌人。

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People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

人们不希望自己的生活被改变。没有人希望自己的问题得到解决。他们的戏剧。他们的干扰。他们的故事解决。他们的脏乱打扫干净了。因为他们还剩下什么?只是一个可怕的未知。

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

我根据他们的美貌选择朋友,根据他们的人品选择熟人,根据他们的智慧选择敌人。一个人在选择敌人时再谨慎也不为过。

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

几乎没有一项活动,一项事业,像爱情一样,一开始就抱着巨大的希望和期望,但却常常以失败告终。

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

人类的真正规律是进步和发展。每当文明在征服过程中停顿下来,它就会被野蛮人推翻。

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law.

公司向任何政治委员会或为任何政治目的作出的任何贡献都应受到法律的禁止。

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.

很难说谁给你带来的危害最大:是怀有恶意的敌人,还是怀有善意的朋友。

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

下一节再重复一遍,人们就会认为你是认真的。