When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

当人们放弃思考的特权时,自由的最后阴影就会离开地平线。

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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

可以说,每一种痛苦的一部分都是痛苦的影子或反映:你不仅要受苦,而且必须不断地思考你受苦的事实。我不仅在无尽的悲伤中度过每一天,而且在每一天都想着在悲伤中度过每一天。

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

警惕公众自由。怀疑每一个接近那颗宝石的人。不幸的是,除了赤裸裸的武力外,没有任何东西能够保护它。一旦你放弃了这种力量,你就不可避免地会被毁灭。

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.

我曾经像摩西一样思考。那件事把我打倒了好几年,把我关进了监狱。然后我开始像工作一样思考。约伯等待着,因为他相信上帝,他就成了史上最富有的人。

I am happy for the wonderful men I have in my life, would be happy for a new love, and am happy either way. That is a kind of magical thinking that works

我为我生命中那些了不起的男人感到高兴,也为一段新的爱情感到高兴,无论如何我都感到高兴。这是一种神奇的想法

It wasn't my best. You take the bad with the good. Sometimes the bad is good enough.

那不是我最好的。你接受坏的和好的。有时候坏的就足够好了。

Sometimes a shadow rises, and death lies nameless in the dark.

有时候,一个阴影升起,死亡无名地躺在黑暗中。

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

自由:想象力最宝贵的财富之一。

By indignities men come to dignities.

人靠侮辱得尊荣。