A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

  • -- Chanakya 考底利耶

一个人不应该太诚实。直树先砍,诚实人先遭殃。

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But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

但我们还会说些别的。在这个国家,有能力工作的人,有能力工作的人,以及选择不工作的人,你们不能像现在这样继续要求福利。

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

一个明智的人能问自己的唯一问题,一个诚实的人也会问自己的唯一问题,就是一种学说是对的还是错的。

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

人们说我是法律惊悚小说的发明者。

Though I be poor, I'm honest.

虽然我很穷,但我很诚实。