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A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.
一个伟大的国家背叛了使它变得伟大的原则,因此成为劫持人质者的人质。
— Daniel Inouye 丹尼尔·井上
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更多好句 ↗Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
那些想要变得伟大的人,既不应该爱自己,也不应该爱自己的东西,而应该只爱正义的东西,无论是自己做的还是别人做的。
Plato
柏拉图
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
尊严不在于拥有荣誉,而在于应得荣誉。
Aristotle
亚里士多德
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
家庭生活太过亲密,不能用正义的精神来维护。它可以由超越正义的爱的精神来维持。
Reinhold Niebuhr
莱茵霍尔德·尼布赫
To meet an old friend in a distant country is like the delight of rain after a long drought.
在一个遥远的国家遇见一位老朋友,就像久旱逢甘霖一样。
佚名
There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.
有一种无法逃避的依恋。如果你出生在某个地方,而环境并没有把你带离它,那么你就会在其中成长并停留。
Graham Swift
格拉汉姆·史威夫特
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
优秀的品德是习惯的结果。我们通过正义的行为变得正义,通过有节制的行为变得有节制,通过勇敢的行为变得勇敢。
Aristotle
亚里士多德