Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

我们的国家现在走的道路是如此稳定,以致于表明它将走哪条路走向毁灭,也就是说:首先通过巩固权力,然后是腐败,来显示其必然的后果。

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Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

尽可能多地把你的精神存在传授给那些与你同行的人,把他们回馈给你的东西当作珍贵的东西来接受。

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

要拯救人,有三件事是必须的:知道他应该相信什么;知道他应该渴望什么;知道他应该做什么。

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

在任何情况下,希望都是必要的。没有这种安慰,贫穷、疾病和囚禁的痛苦将是无法忍受的。

One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.

其中一个关键问题将是个人荣誉与众多利益之争,以及不可预见的后果。

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

腐败犯罪的共犯往往是我们自己的冷漠。

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

在通往毁灭的道路上,从来都伴随着对理想的口惠而实不至。

Do good and throw it in the tigris and god will repay you in the desert.

你若行善,丢在底格里斯河,神必在旷野报应你。

One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.

一羊生疮,群羊遭殃。