When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it

  • -- Joseph Joubert 朱伯特

当一个民族诞生了一个能产生伟大思想的人,另一个民族也诞生了一个能理解和欣赏伟大思想的人

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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

对自由的最大危险潜伏在热情的人的暗中侵犯之中,他们本意是好的,但并不了解。

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

人类可以分为三类:一类是不能移动的,一类是可以移动的,一类是可以移动的。

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.

平静的思想并不总是正确的思想,正如遥远的观点并不总是最真实的观点一样。

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

欣赏是一种短暂的感情,但随着你对它对象的熟悉程度的加深,这种感情也会随之消逝。

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

她的优点是她想说什么就说什么,她的缺点是她的想法无足轻重。

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

工作是医治人间一切病痛和疾苦的万应良药。

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

赞赏,名词。我们礼貌地承认他人与自己相似。

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

许多批评家因未能理解而被人铭记。