We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

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

我们承认小错误只是为了让人觉得我们没有大错误。

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We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

我们只承认一个动机,那就是跟随我们所知道的真理,无论真理将我们带到何处;但在我们的内心深处,我们确信使我们自由的真理,最终也会使我们快乐。

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

进步的艺术是在变革中保持秩序,在秩序中保持变革。

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

我总是在做我不能做的事,以便我能学会如何去做。

Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

承认酷刑并不是对此负责。