When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.

  • -- Niccolò Machiavelli 尼科尔·马基雅维利

当你解除你的臣民的武装时,你冒犯了他们,因为你表现出的要么是因为怯懦,要么是因为缺乏信仰,你不信任他们;任何一个结论都会让他们恨你。

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I'm at the borderline of my faith, I'm at the hinterland of my devotion. In the frontline of this battle of mine but I'm still alive.

我在我信仰的边缘,我在我奉献的腹地。在我战斗的前线,但我还活着。

Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.

只要神保守你的信心,你的信心就不丧志;当神决定要抓住你的时候,你还没有坚强到可以跌倒。

If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.

如果懦弱的确是最严重的恶习,那么狗至少是无罪的。

A coward often deals a mortal blow to the brave.

懦夫常给勇敢者致命的一击。