As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

  • -- Pythagoras 毕达哥拉斯

只要法律对人是必要的,它们就不再适合自由。

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When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

当你从一个房间转到另一个房间时,当你的动物感觉不到洗碗机的声音、滴答作响的时钟、烤鸡的味道——厨房和它所有看似分散的部分都消失在虚无之中——或者变成一波又一波的可能性。

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

个性是政治自由的目标。通过给予公民与秩序和他人权利相适应的行动自由和生存自由,这些制度使他成为真正的自由人。他可以用自己的方式追求自己的幸福。

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

人们认为虐待穷人就是虐待动物。他们从不认为平等是不公平的;不,这是对同志的背叛。

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man you take it.

没有人能给你自由。没有人能给你平等或正义。如果你是个男人,你就接受它。

I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

我不再是罪犯了。我几年前就放弃了这种做法。

Most men are not that evolved.

大多数男人并没有那么进化。