Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  • -- Oscar Wilde 奥斯卡王尔德

适度是致命的。没有什么比过度更成功的了。

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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.

告诉一个房子着火的人,适度地发出警报;告诉他适度地把他的妻子从掠夺者手中救出来;告诉母亲要慢慢地把她的孩子从它掉进去的火里救出来;但请敦促我不要使用节制。

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

这是一种信念,即必须减少不平等的极端和过分现象,以便每个人都能自由地充分发挥他或她的全部潜力。这就是为什么我们把宝贵的时间从生活中抽出来,投入到政治中去。

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

我很幸运,总是知道自己想做什么,上帝的恩典让我能够在自己选择的职业上取得成功。

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

中庸与智慧是分不开的伴侣,但天才与之连点头之交都没有。

On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change.

在人的层面上,人们希望看到一个想要改变的人成功。