Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

  • -- Benjamin Banneker 班纳克

傲慢不应使我们忽视那些对我们来说很容易的事情,绝望也不应使我们在困难面前失去勇气。

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I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

在我的一生中,我学到了两个教训:第一,对于人类悲剧,没有足够的文学、心理或历史答案,只有道德答案。第二,正如绝望只能从别人那里得到一样,希望也只能从别人那里得到。

We live in a world that tells us not to care, to consume everything in sight. It tells us that being cool and being an individual actually means buying what everyone else is buying and doing what everyone else is doing.

我们生活的世界告诉我们不要在意,要消费眼前的一切。它告诉我们,酷和作为一个个体实际上意味着买别人买的和做别人做的。

We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

我们还没有达到目标,但是……在上帝的帮助下,我们很快就能看到这个国家摆脱贫困的那一天。

I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence.

我相信我和其他人一样有权假定自己无罪。

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

当我们试图去做我们的职责时,我们从来没有失败过,当我们忽视去做时,我们总是失败。

Practice no vice because it's trivial; neglect no virtue because it's so.

不要因为小事而作恶;不要因为美德而忽视它。

There was no such thing as a private life, all lives were public.

没有所谓的私人生活,所有的生活都是公开的。

A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion.

假设变成了自我反驳的断言。