Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

好朋友,好书和一个昏昏欲睡的良心:这是理想的生活。

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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

一个人如果违反了良心告诉他是不公正的法律,并且心甘情愿地接受监禁的惩罚,以唤起社会对其不公正的良心,那么他实际上是在表达对法律的最高尊重。

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

对良心的忠诚与隐退的谦虚是不一致的。如果是这样,就让谦虚屈服吧。这可能只是一种虚假的谦虚,因此可能会受到威胁。

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

人类所做的、想过的或曾经做过的一切,都像魔法一样保存在书页之中。

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

很少有好书被写出来的原因是很少有人会写任何东西。

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

我不知道我们为什么在这里,但我很确定这不是为了玩得开心。

I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.

我不知道我们中间谁能自称知道神的旨意和旨意。

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

虚荣的篝火:这本书的教训是,永远不要开始相信你自己的媒体。

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

读一本书就像为自己重新写一遍。