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Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

  • -- Thomas Babington Macaulay 麦考莱

迫害对他们产生了自然的影响。它为他们找到了一个教派;这使他们成为一个派系。

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To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

因为我们从一个人所持的某种学说的性质，或者从其他与他持有同样学说的人的行为中，推断出他将会犯罪，而惩罚他，这就是迫害，在任何情况下，都是愚蠢和邪恶的。

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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

一个杰出的人想要逃避责难是愚蠢的，而受责难的影响是软弱的表现。古代所有的杰出人物，甚至世界上各个时代的人，都经历过这种激烈的迫害。

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

为了观点而压迫任何一个人，除了加深这些观点并使它们变得更重要之外，很少有其他效果。

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It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

一个派系的窃窃私语不可能压倒一个国家的声音。

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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

如果作家只是坐着谈论压迫，他们就不会有太多写作。

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All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

在我看来，所有教派的主张似乎都是正确的，而否认则是错误的。

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