Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

和平需要最英勇的劳动和最艰难的牺牲。它需要比战争更伟大的英雄主义。它要求对真理有更大的忠诚和更纯洁的良心。

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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

每一个为自己珍视良心自由的人,都有责任在他人的情况下抵制良心自由的侵犯,否则,由于环境的变化,他们的情况可能会变成他自己的情况。

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

但现在,可持续性是一个政治范畴,人们越来越难以严肃地思考这个问题。可持续发展已成为一种点缀。

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.

一个名副其实的艺术家的良心就像一种不治之症,给他带来无尽的折磨,但偶尔也会让他充满无言的喜悦。

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

纯洁和单纯是人类翱翔于大地和一切暂时的自然之上的两翼。

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

作为一个小商人,你没有比真相更大的影响力。

Life’s richest treasure is a loving heart that is at peace with all.

生命中最宝贵的财富是一颗与所有人和睦相处的爱心。

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

必须有邪恶,这样善才能证明它的纯洁高于邪恶。

Many a man labours for the day he will never live to see.

许多人都在为他活不到的那一天而劳动。

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

通过管理容易的事情来预见困难。

My purpose is far greater than my pain.

我的目标远大于我的痛苦。

By labour fire is got out of a stone.

劳动产生火。

Peace, unity and harmony!

和平、团结、和谐!