We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

  • -- Paul Elmer More 保罗·埃尔默·摩尔

我们生来什么都不知道,经过努力,我们学到的只是一点点;然而,我们始终受到法律的约束,这些法律不听任何无知的辩解,以平静的冷漠来衡量它们的奖惩。

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Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.

这并不是说辩护可以被当作一种考验,因为诉讼形式,特别是债务,忽视了法律规定的义务与当事人意愿所创造的义务之间的根本区别。

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

如果在我的斗争中,我能鼓励甚至一些人去理解和放弃他们现在盲目遵循的政策,我将不会为我可能受到的任何惩罚感到后悔。

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

特别的苦难并不总是对特别的罪的惩罚,有时是对特别恩典的试炼。

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

我们都充满了软弱和错误;让我们彼此宽恕彼此的愚蠢——这是自然的第一法则。