We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

我们在道义上有责任赡养老人、无助的婴儿和贫困,这远远超过满足宫廷奢侈的虚构需求。

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I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education.

除了人,我不知道还有什么能安全储存社会的终极力量。如果我们认为他们不够开明,补救措施不是剥夺他们的权力,而是通过教育来告知他们。

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

对老年的恐惧最常见的原因与贫穷的可能性有关。

Burn one day's gathering of firewood on the same day.

同一天烧一天的柴禾。