It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

人们有责任仅从他们的行为来判断他们。我们的才能使我们无法达到动机、性格和秘密的自我。我们从果实中称树为善,从行为中称人为善。

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My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place.

我自己的世界是如何结束的判断是,将会有一个国家由一个疯子会制造核弹如此多的力量,如此多的力量,它将下降在面对这个地球,地球将会失去它的位置。

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.

新闻可以直接走到决策室的门口。一部小说可以进入房间——进入角色的大脑。

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

你不能让自己感觉一些你感觉不到的东西,但你可以让自己做正确的事,不管你的感觉如何。

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

由于读得太多,睡得太少,他的头脑变得迟钝,失去了判断力。

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

我们的行为造就或损害我们,我们是自己行为的产物。

But in action, one defies one's character.

但在行动中,一个人违背了自己的性格。