He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

自己写文章的人比自己写书的人更聪明。

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Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.

主权是一个经常使用的词,但它实际上没有特定的含义。今天的主权只是名义上的。任何主权国家都只是名义上和相对上的主权。

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.

我希望我当时更明智一些。我希望我能更有效率,我希望我能更团结,我希望我能更有原则。

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

任何一个试图利用政治权力为公众谋福利的人,都会感到一种可怕的无力感。

The wiser world doth greater thee confess Than all men else, than thy self only less.

聪明的世界比别人更爱你,比你自己更爱你。

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

无论什么时候书被烧掉,人最终也会被烧掉。

I'd like to die with my boots on.

我宁愿穿着靴子死去。