Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

  • -- Edmund Burke 埃德蒙伯克

当臣民违背原则时,国王将成为政策上的暴君。

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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

这似乎是一个奇怪的原则,阐明作为医院的第一要求,它应该不伤害病人。

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

我是宇宙的主人,却不是我自己,我是唯一反抗我绝对权力的人。

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

在风格上,随波逐流;在原则上,坚如磐石。

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

正如理性是对信仰的反叛,激情也是对理性的反叛。