It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

  • -- Giambattista Vico 维科

的确,人类自己创造了这个由民族组成的世界……但是,毫无疑问,这个世界产生于一种思想,这种思想往往是多样化的,有时是完全相反的,而且总是超越人们向自己提出的特定目标。

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Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.

半个世纪以前,情况完全不同。在经济上,我们实际上是跪着的,在政治上,我们仍然被排除在国际社会之外。今天,在这方面,我们有一个完全不同和稳定得多的基础。

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

一个孩子也永远无法理解这样一个事实:同样是这位母亲,她做饭做得那么好,那么关心他的咳嗽,那么慈祥地帮助他做作业,在某些情况下,她对他的感情不过是隐藏在他内心世界的一堵墙。

It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'

这在所有出生的人中只占很小的一部分。我相信我们在这段时间里回来了,我们当中现在在这里的人,是专门来体验它的。并要叫“灵苏醒”。

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

他们说我们的君王凌驾于他的律法之上,他可以随心所欲地制定和违反律法,没有任何区别。事实正好相反,否则他不应该发誓遵守诺言。

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

我没有人和我一起玩,所以我创造了我自己的世界。

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

每个国家都嘲笑其他国家,所有国家都是对的。

Have a good time if you want -- but don't overdo it.

如果你想玩得开心就玩得开心,但不要玩得太过火。

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

极端复杂与艺术相悖。