Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

只要你的目标是履行你的职责,人类就会在你失败的地方给你荣誉。

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Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

让每个人都规范自己的行为……在类似的情况下,我们希望别人怎样对待我们,我们也要怎样对待别人。

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

在当今世界,在我们这个时代,我们感到人类历史上前所未有的苦难、痛苦、肉体和灵魂的折磨。

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

人是如此简单,如此倾向于服从眼前的需要,以至于一个骗子永远不会因为他的欺骗而缺少受害者。

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

总而言之,我们可以说柏拉图哲学的目的是把人提升为神。

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

当我们尊敬的是父母而不是所有主要的信用卡时,生活简单得多。

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

如果船长的最高目标是保护他的船,他就会把它永远留在港口。

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

最好的主题总是人,他们从不因自己的不可预测性而令我惊讶。

Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.

谁借钱快,还钱慢,他们的信用就一文不值,他们就这样高高兴兴地走了。

A bend in the road is not the end of the road… Unless you fail to make the turn.

路的拐弯处不是路的尽头,除非你没有转弯。

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

做离你最近的事,第二件事就会变得更清楚。