I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

  • -- William Tecumseh Sherman 威廉·特库姆塞·谢尔曼

我从事实和推理中得出我的意见,我的意见只适合我自己。如果人们不喜欢我的观点,那也没什么区别,因为我不征求他们的意见或投票。

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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

白天的赌徒和晚上的赌徒之间有着同样的区别,就像一个粗心的丈夫和一个在妻子的窗下昏迷不醒的情人之间的区别一样。

The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

人类所遭受的最深刻的失败是由一个人能够成为什么和他实际上已经成为什么之间的差异造成的。

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

美德就像缪斯女神一样,总是成群结队地出现。一个好的原则从来没有在任何一个人的胸中单独找到过。

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

没有什么激情比恐惧更能有效地剥夺人的行为和推理能力。

It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

令人惊讶的是,每个人对你应该如何生活都有自己的看法。

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

如果普遍的观点是悲观的,那么幻想就会占据上风。

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

我拒绝加入任何愿意接纳我为会员的俱乐部。

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

人的理智就像世界上的上帝。