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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

文明国家的主要商业活动是金钱，而不是道德。

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As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.

正如第一次世界大战令人痛苦地表明的那样，当政治家和将军们带领国家进入战争时，他们几乎总是假定会迅速取得胜利，而且有一种非常持久的倾向，即不会预见到事后看来显而易见的问题。

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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

民族性格只是人类的渺小、变态和卑劣在每个国家所表现出来的特殊形式的另一个名称。凡国民戏笑别国的民，都是公义的。

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The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.

你的生活越多地建立在原则之上，越少地建立在你或他人的个性之上，你的人生道路就会越笔直。

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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

我想指出的是，生活模仿艺术远远超过艺术模仿生活的一般原则。

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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

消化不良是上帝强加于胃的道德。

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Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

与所有国家通商，不与任何国家结盟，应该是我们的座右铭。

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He that walketh with the virtuous is one of them.

和有德之人同行的，也是这样。

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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

给我一个非常成功的工会产业。

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