If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

  • -- Charlotte Smith 夏洛特·史密斯女士

如果征服不能约束子孙后代,那么契约也不能约束子孙后代。

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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

这是子孙后代的特权,使那些因追求伟大而分裂了整个时代的对手之间的事情变得正确。

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

权力是我的情妇。我为她的征服付出了太多的努力,不允许任何人把她从我身边夺走。