Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

  • -- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton 阿克顿

意见会改变,举止会改变,信仰会起起落落,但是道德律法是写在永恒的桌子上的。

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No one has to be taught to trust in themselves. No one has to be taught that what you experience inside yourself is more authoritative than what comes to you externally, even if it comes from God. Since the Fall, it has been part of our character to look within ourselves.

没有人需要被教导要相信自己。没有人需要被教导,你内心的经历比外在的经历更有权威,即使它来自上帝。从秋天开始,审视自己已经成为我们性格的一部分。

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

如果你们的教义和信条给了我自由,我就不会攻击它们。如果他们认为危险——如果他们断言怀疑是一种犯罪,那么我就会对他们进行全面的攻击,因为他们奴役了人类的思想。

What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.

演员真正有趣的地方在于,我们都对人们的职业生涯有自己的看法,但我认为你从来都不了解自己,也不了解别人对你的看法。

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

人们从一个野心上升到另一个野心:首先,他们寻求保护自己不受攻击,然后他们攻击别人。

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

我相信简单和谦逊的生活方式对每个人都是最好的,对身体和精神都是最好的。

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

法律必须公正而坚决地用铁腕执行。任何地方都是这样,即使是在一个家庭里。

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

我不知道有什么办法能比严格执行这些法律更有效地确保废除坏的或令人讨厌的法律。

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

所有的道德法则都只是说明某种行为会产生好的效果。

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

相信我,诚实的怀疑比一半的信条更有信仰。

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

因为死亡只不过是我们从时间转向永恒。

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

良好的教养能打开最好的教育打不开的门。

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity!

仿佛你可以消磨时间而不伤害永恒!

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

当我死后,我将把我的身体留给科幻小说。

If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.

如果我跌倒,我就会跌倒。我会像其他人一样站起来。

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

对美的感知是一种道德测试。

Don't fall back into old patterns.

不要重蹈覆辙。