We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

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

只要人们认为我们能为他们服务,我们就很少发现人们忘恩负义。

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It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

在你活着的时候,希望自己在做别的事情,这是忘恩负义的。你没有活在你真正活着的那一刻,你希望你在别的地方。

An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from.

忘恩负义的人就像树下的猪吃橡子,却从不抬头看橡子从何而来。

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

寡妇对情人的拒绝很少明确到排除希望的程度。

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

法律太温和,很少有人遵守;太严厉,很少执行。