Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

每个实际的国家都是腐败的。好人不能太遵守法律。

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Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

即使社会要求男人和女人应该有特定的行为方式,也正是父母们不仅在孩子们说的话中,而且在他们的生活中,把这些方式教给孩子们。

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

不断感受成为第一的需要。但我希望你是第一个坠入爱河的人。我希望你在道德上成为第一。我希望你是第一个慷慨大方的人。

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

有些人说得好,写得不好。因为这个地方和观众使他们感到温暖,并从他们的思想中汲取比他们想象的更多的温暖。

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

任何法律都不能废除真正的贵族制度:法律所能做的只是规定如何传授,以及由谁来获得。

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

对所有人都要有礼貌,但对少数人要有亲密的关系,让那些少数人在你给他们信心之前得到充分的考验。

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

歌曲的实际创作通常是以实现的形式出现的。我想不出一首歌来。

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

每一个行动都是强大的或弱小的,当每一个行动都是强大的,我们是成功的。

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

说服男人去做甚至是对他们自己有益的事情都需要时间。

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

对你得到的每一项福利都要征税。

I'd rather be good than lucky.

我宁愿做个好人也不愿走运。