Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

  • -- Blaise Pascal 巴斯卡

还有比这更愚蠢的事吗?一个人住在河的另一边,他的统治者和我的统治者发生了争吵,而我却没有和他争吵过。

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In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

在冷战后的狂喜中,有一种错误的观念认为,联合国可以在任何地方解决所有问题。

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.

然而,这场战争的模式、理由和所有游戏都是不诚实的。

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

我们从与别人的争吵中提炼出来的,是修辞,而从与自己的争吵中提炼出来的,是诗歌。

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

在错误中有真理的灵魂;恶中有善的灵魂。

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

没有人聪明到知道他所做的一切坏事。

It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.

吵架需要两个人,但结束争吵只需要一个人。