There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

  • -- Liberty Hyde Bailey 丽波提·海德·贝礼

没有劳动就没有卓越。一个人不能梦想自己变得有用或幸福。

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As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

因此,进步仅仅意味着更大的权力、更多的利润、更高的生产率、更多的纸张繁荣,所有这些都可以转化为只与大小或规模有关的标准,而不是质量或卓越性。

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

爱国主义最大的吸引力之一——它满足了我们最坏的愿望。以我们国家的名义,我们可以间接地欺凌和欺骗。欺侮和欺骗,更重要的是,我们觉得自己是非常善良的。

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhap-piness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

为了获得巨大的幸福,你必须经历巨大的痛苦和不幸——否则你怎么知道你什么时候是幸福的?

The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions.

宇宙不会给你想要的东西;它给了你行动所需要的东西。

Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.

此外,我在这里的用处被毁了,因为我所有的朋友都认为我是一个精神不健全的人。

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

每个人都是不诚实的,谁靠别人的劳动生活,无论他是否占据了一个宝座。

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.

如果劳动减少,工业就不会兴旺。

What is useful cannot be base.

有用的东西不能贱。