I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

我认为人类的大部分痛苦都是由于他们对事物的价值作了错误的估计而带来的。

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Mankind, fear your Lord, who created you of a single soul, and from it created its mate, and from the pair of them scattered abroad many men and women; and fear God by whom you demand one of another, and the wombs; surely God ever watches over you.

人哪,要敬畏你的主,他曾用一颗心造了你,又用这颗心造了配偶,并从这分散的二人中造了许多男女。又当敬畏你们彼此所倚靠的神,和妇女。神必看顾你。

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

我的信仰一直是我生活的动力。我认为重要的是,那些被视为自由主义者的人不要害怕谈论道德和社区价值观。

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

我提出了全人类的普遍倾向,一种对权力的永无休止的欲望,这种欲望只有在死亡时才会停止。

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

人老了,爱还在,就像人老了,生活在所有的痛苦之中,却死于所有的欢乐之中。

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

在所有人的痛苦中,最痛苦的莫过于:知道那么多,却什么也不能控制。

Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.

我们共有的保守价值观,我们对个人的信仰是我们国家的巨大希望。