In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

  • -- Richard Whately 理查德·怀特利

在我们对人类交易的判断中,光学定律被颠倒了;我们最模糊地看到周围的物体。

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That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.

凡从创世以来,生为人,死为死的,不是在天上,就是在地狱,这都是从上面所说的,所表明的事来的,也就是说,天堂和地狱都是从人来的。

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

不要被你周围看到的东西误导,也不要被你看到的东西影响。你们生活在一个充满幻想的世界,充满了错误的道路,错误的价值观和错误的理想。但你不是那个世界的一部分。

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

不是在成就上,而是在忍耐上,在人类灵魂上,它显示了它的神圣的伟大和它与无限的联盟。

It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.

每当有执法人员死亡时,我就感到痛苦。

I go around the room and ask people, 'What do you think?'

我在房间里转来转去,问人们,‘你们觉得怎么样?’

Law governs man, and reason the law.

法律管人,理性管法律。