We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

  • -- Mortimer J. Adler 莫蒂默·杰尔姆·阿德勒

我们只承认一个动机,那就是跟随我们所知道的真理,无论真理将我们带到何处;但在我们的内心深处,我们确信使我们自由的真理,最终也会使我们快乐。

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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

为了管理,问题不是遵循一个或多或少有效的理论,而是用手边的任何材料来建造。不可避免的事情必须被接受并加以利用。

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

当爱召唤你时,请追随它,尽管爱的道路艰难险峻。当他的翅膀拥抱你时,请顺从他,尽管隐藏在他羽翼中的剑可能会伤害你。

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

一个人只做一件事的仆人是很可悲的;他的男子气概全被过度的工作所消耗了。

Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar.

每个人似乎都承认自己的伟大。他把渊博的政治家和学者融为一体。

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

现代战争方法的定义是承认个人生命的丧失。

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

机会不会使人变得强壮或虚弱,但它能显示出一个人的本质。

Where is the country, my friend? It is not in the heart or in the saliva.

国家在哪里,我的朋友?它不存在于心脏或唾液中。

That shire which we the Heart of England well may call.

我们英格兰的心脏可以称之为郡。