I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

  • -- Abu Bakr 艾布伯克尔

我已被赐给你们权柄,却不是你们中间最好的。如果我做得好,请帮助我;如果我做错了,请纠正我。对真理的真诚尊重。

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Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

没有什么比习俗更能加强和巩固权威了;因为没有人轻易地不信任他和所有人一直以来所养成的习惯。

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

在所有真诚的演讲中都有力量,不一定是强大的力量,但演讲者能说多少就说多少。

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

任何陈述都不应该被相信,因为它是由权威人士发表的。

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

真诚是危险的,除非你也很愚蠢。

I always do the wrong thing but for a very good reason.

我总是做错事,但理由很充分。

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

最好的东西做过头就是错的。