For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

  • -- Sir Thomas More 托马斯·莫尔爵士

因为他们见百姓成群拥到街上,天天被雨打得皮肉湿透,却不能劝他们离开雨中,他们就住在自己家里,因为不能治好百姓的愚昧。

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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

现代的悲剧之一是,人们开始相信某人过去说过的一些话,可能是为了说明或挑衅的目的,实际上代表了那个人当时的信仰。

I would like to enlighten people.

我想启发人们。