There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same., so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

  • -- Norman Mailer 梅勒

生活的法则是如此残酷而公正,一个人必须成长,否则就得为保持不变付出更多。一个人必须成长,否则就得为保持不变付出更多的代价。

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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

法律是一种灵巧的风俗习惯的混合体,这些风俗习惯有益于社会,即使没有法律存在,也可以遵循;而另一些风俗习惯则有利于统治少数人,但对大多数人有害,只能通过恐怖手段强加于他们。

It will be of little avail to the people if the laws are so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

如果法律过于繁冗,无法阅读,或者过于杂乱无章,无法理解,那对人民就没有什么帮助。