A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

  • -- Victor Hugo 维克多雨果

放债的比奴隶主还坏;因为主人只欠你一个人的债,债主却欠你的体面,并且能制伏你。

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From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

从需要和绝望的深处,人们可以一起工作,可以组织自己解决自己的问题,用尊严和力量满足自己的需求。

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

官员的尊严往往与任职国家的重要性成反比。

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

指挥就是服务,不多也不少。

When placed in command - take charge.

当你被任命为指挥官时,你要负责。