If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

  • -- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton 阿克顿

如果过去是一种障碍和负担,那么对过去的了解是最安全、最可靠的解脱。

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However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

然而,坦克现在已提高到技术上如此完美的水平,它们可以越过我们未受破坏的战壕和障碍,这一事实并没有对我们的部队产生明显的影响。

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

妇女解放运动实际上是十九世纪最伟大的利己主义运动,也是历史上对自我权利的最强烈的肯定。

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

适度的卑贱是最安全的——在羞愧中保持灵活,随时准备好接受慷慨、善良和公正的东西,而任何东西都可以从美德中获得。

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

障碍的唯一用处是被克服。对勇敢的人来说,障碍所起的作用不是吓唬他们,而是挑战他们。

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

如果今天妇女们都起来要求解放,男人就会被迫同意。

The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.

得到你想要的东西的最安全的方法就是得到你想要的。