He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

经常炫耀妻子和钱包的人,有被人借走的危险。

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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

我不禁担心,人们可能会把每一种新理论都看成是一种危险,把每一项创新都看成是一种辛苦的麻烦,把每一项社会进步都看成是走向革命的第一步,而他们可能会完全拒绝前进。

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.

人是一种手段而不是目的,他是达到经济或政治目的的一种手段,而经济或政治目的本身并不是真正的目的,而是达到其他目的的手段,而这些目的反过来又是手段,如此无穷。

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

危险和欢乐长在同一根茎上。

Observe all men, thyself most.

观察所有的人,最观察你自己。