The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

  • -- Xenophon 色诺芬

对一个领导者真正的考验是他的追随者是否会出于自己的意志坚持他的事业,忍受最艰难的困苦而不是被迫这样做,并在最危险的时刻保持坚定。

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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

做一个穷人是困难的,但是在一个金钱的国度里做一个贫穷的民族是最困难的。

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

确定是平静与安宁之母,不确定是分歧与争吵之源。

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

男人可以从一个情妇那里得到许多东西,而从一个妻子那里却得不到。

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

一个暴君的工具会多么奇怪地歪曲文字的意思!

We support all kinds of causes to absolve ourselves of upholding them.

我们支持各种各样的事业,以免除我们维护它们的责任。

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

在我们的生活之上,我们爱一个坚定的朋友。