Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

完美的勇气是在没有目击者的情况下,在世界的注视下,一个人能够做什么。

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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

这些人有能力为正义献身,为公众献身。他们言出必行,每过一天,他们的意思就更深刻了。

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

原罪是关于人的一件事,它使人能够设想自己的完美,却不能实现它。

There are three people whose lives are unworthy - the overly compassionate, the hot-tempered, and the hypercritical.

有三个人的生活是不值得的——过度的同情,脾气暴躁,和吹毛求疵。

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed.

当悲伤超过人类表达情感的能力时,人就会产生一种奇怪的镇定。

I was young, now I'm old, and I did not see a righteous man forsaken and his children begging for bread.

我从前年幼,现在年老,也没有见过义人被弃,他的儿女讨饭。

If thoughts were legal witnesses, many an honest man would be proved a rogue.

如果思想是法律的见证人,许多诚实的人就会被证明是流氓。

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

人是自然的一部分,这一点最真实的体现在他的心智能力上。

As to the juror or the witness, bribe both.

至于陪审员或证人,应贿赂两者。