Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

  • -- Charles Caleb Colton 英国作家科尔顿

粗俗粗俗的人总是对财富比对才能更尊重;因为,尽管财富是一种远不如人才有效的权力来源,但它碰巧要容易理解得多。

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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

如果没有冬天,春天就不会如此怡人;如果我们有时不经历逆境,繁荣就不会如此受欢迎。

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

战争是由不受保护的财富引起的。