Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

  • -- Niccolò Machiavelli 尼科尔·马基雅维利

因为把两者结合在一起是困难的,所以当两者之一必须缺一不可时,害怕比被爱更安全。

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Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.

时间像一根没有尽头的金丝,穿过这个世界,似乎穿过了这间屋子的中心,也穿过了这些人的中心,突然停了下来,僵硬了,静止了,闪闪发光……房间里的东西靠得更近了。

And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.

也许最重要的是,孩子们可以了解他们的权利,与其他国家的孩子们分享他们的知识,发现他们的问题,并确定他们可能如何合作来解决这些问题。

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.

你有没有找到任何合理的理由来解释为什么相互的承诺对彼此来说是足够的考虑(就像加尔各答两个只能站在一起的瘦马)?我没有。

You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

你知道,我们有两个家庭:一个是我们出生的家庭,另一个是我们后来为自己建立的家庭。