Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

礼仪是所有法律中最不重要的,但它却是最严格遵守的法律。

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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

体面必须是一种比它的反面更令人筋疲力尽的状态来维持。那些成功的人似乎需要充足的睡眠。

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

由其自身规律所产生的诗歌,在所谓的审美、判断、演绎的客观原则方面,可能是未实现的,是不好的。

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

上帝赐给人类的最宝贵的礼物是正直的心。

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

我是在严格的皮带律法之前长大的。