In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

  • -- Adam Ferguson 亚当·弗格森

在每一个商业国家,尽管自命享有平等权利,但少数人的提高必然会使多数人感到沮丧。

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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

对于一个优越的种族,作为人类对超凡圣洁和美德的自命不凡,似乎……荒谬。

We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.

我们看到了一个广泛的拆除国家机构的计划。这些都是造成灾难的因素。

In case you haven't caught the commercials, I'm in the new SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

如果你还没看过广告的话,我正在演海绵宝宝的新电影。

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

疾病总是使我更接近一种优雅的状态。