To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

  • -- Niccolò Machiavelli 尼科尔·马基雅维利

要了解人民的本性,就必须是君主;要了解君主的本性,就必须是人民的本性。

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I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.

我年纪大了一点,也明白了这个行业的本质——你越老,你的技能就会减少得越多,但我认为我在如何运用我的身体技能方面变得越来越明智。这是令人沮丧的部分,当你把太多的心和欲望投入到事情中,却感觉自己不被需要。

Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.

在我们刚才谈到的那些新荷兰人中,有一个人,从他的外貌和他的马车看来,就象是他们的首领,在他们中间有一个王子或上尉。

Only when you truly understand what it takes to love can you appreciate the love story of others.

只有当你真正明白什么是爱,你才能欣赏别人的爱情故事。

Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.

你可以有一个更伟大的王子,但你永远不会有一个更爱你的王子。