Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

只要你的目标是履行你的职责,人类就会在你失败的地方给你荣誉。

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Mankind, fear your Lord, who created you of a single soul, and from it created its mate, and from the pair of them scattered abroad many men and women; and fear God by whom you demand one of another, and the wombs; surely God ever watches over you.

人哪,要敬畏你的主,他曾用一颗心造了你,又用这颗心造了配偶,并从这分散的二人中造了许多男女。又当敬畏你们彼此所倚靠的神,和妇女。神必看顾你。

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

人类的神圣权利不能在古老的羊皮纸卷或发霉的记录中翻找。它们就像一束阳光一样,由神亲自书写在人类本性的全集里;而且永远无法抹去。

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

因此,我的目的是鞭笞造反者,使他们的骄傲变得谦卑,跟随他们到最深处,使他们惧怕我们。恐惧是智慧的开端。

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

信贷购买就像喝醉了一样。嗡嗡声立刻出现,让你搭个便车……宿醉第二天就来了。

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

永远记住,你不仅有权利成为一个独立的人,你也有义务成为一个独立的人。

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

现在,作为一名科幻小说家,当我看到一个自然法则时,我怀疑它是否会失败。

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

很多时候,你在电影中得到了一些你并不打算去看的东西。

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

手段的完善和目标的混乱似乎是我们的主要问题。

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

做我们应该做的事,我们不值得称赞,因为这是我们的责任。

My will and self restraint. Have come to fail now, fail now.

我的意志和自我克制。现在失败了,现在失败了。