Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

  • -- William Ewart Gladstone 威廉·尤尔特·格莱斯顿

不要忘记一个人的生活的目的是改善人类自身,所以,他可能离开这个世界,在他伟大的球或小,做一些有利于他的生物和有点困难减少世界上的罪恶和悲伤。

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However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

不论你的生活如何卑贱,你要面对它生活,不要躲避它,更别用恶言咒骂它。视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧。不要麻烦自己去找新的东西,无论是衣服还是朋友。万物不变,是我们在变。卖掉你的衣服,保留你的思想。

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

历史的全部教训用四句话概括: 神要谁灭亡,必先使谁因势力而发狂。 天网恢恢,疏而不漏。天网恢恢,疏而不漏。 蜜蜂使它抢夺的花受精。 当足够黑的时候,你可以看到星星。

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."

据说,一位东方君主曾经命令他的智者为他编造一个句子,让他随时出现在眼前,而且这个句子在任何时候和任何情况下都应该是正确和恰当的。他们对他说:“这一切都会过去的。”

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

政治是关于改善人们的生活。这是为了推进我们国家和世界的和平与正义事业。政治就是为人民谋福利。

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

对文明来说,最好的保障是住所,而人类的进步,最重要的是取决于适当的布置和成为住所。

Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!

让我们崇敬,让我们崇拜,但要挺直腰板,睁大眼睛,高高在上,而不是最低微;未来,而不是过去!

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

我的目的——我开始的地方——是使用的想法。这不是回收,而是再利用。

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

爱国主义是毫无疑问的信念和目标的熊熊烈火。