Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

  • -- Alexander Pope 亚历山大·波普

我们的激情就像一阵痉挛,虽然能让我们暂时变得更强,但过后却会变得更弱。

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As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

作为一种实际行动的工具,法律对其所处时代的智慧作出反应,虽然这种智慧可能是错误的,但它有时与这种智慧或激情背道而驰,将所接受的价值观发扬光大。

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

我的青春是在国家从战争的废墟和灰烬中重建起来的时候度过的,在这场战争中,我的国家从未向在斗争中付出最高代价的敌人屈服。

The world is a comedy to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel.

世界对思考的人来说是喜剧;一个悲剧给那些有感觉的人。

I have to prove myself five times over.

我必须证明我自己五次。