As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

  • -- Alex Campbell 亚历克斯·坎贝尔

因此,进步仅仅意味着更大的权力、更多的利润、更高的生产率、更多的纸张繁荣,所有这些都可以转化为只与大小或规模有关的标准,而不是质量或卓越性。

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

人们所说的友谊只不过是一种社会安排,一种利益的相互调整,一种给予和接受服务的交换;总之,这只是一个简单的业务,涉及的人建议从中获得稳定的利润,为自己的爱。

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

这是双向的:有些悲剧的受害者来找我,他们经历了巨大的悲痛,无法和解。同样,我也无法改变那些犯下罪行的人或追随他们的傻瓜的心态。

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

明白事理的人使自己适应世界;不讲道理的人坚持要使世界适应他自己。因此,所有的进步都取决于不讲道理的人。

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

成功并非没有许多恐惧和烦恼;逆境中并非没有安慰和希望。

Hold back some goods for a thousand days and you will be sure to sell at a profit.

保留一些货物一千天后,你一定能卖出好货。

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

我从来没有过保险;我只是每天都尽力做到最好。

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

我不在乎它会带来什么后果,我一直为小事犯傻。

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

没有什么比拥有世俗的标准而没有世俗的手段更可悲的了。

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.

一个奇怪的结果是,我成了一个小名人。

When you don't have standards, it's easier to exceed them.

当你没有标准的时候,你更容易超越它们。

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

我们是彼此的大小和纽带。

If you want to prosper, prosper God.

你若要亨通,就当亨通神。