The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

  • -- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton 阿克顿

一个人如果把自己的国家看得比任何其他义务都重要,那么他的精神就和一个人把自己的一切权利都交给国家一样。他们都否认权利高于权威。

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What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

什么可以,什么不可以,到最后总会屈服于必须存在的东西。

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

弱者有良药,智者有乐;至尊的智慧是至尊的福气。

If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?

如果我否定自己的某些东西,我只会变得怨恨,那又有什么意义呢?

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

因此,一个种族并不比另一个种族优越或低劣。