The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

  • -- Giambattista Vico 维科

所有语言中词源学的普遍原则:词是从身体和身体的性质中继承下来的,用来表达思想和精神的东西。思想的秩序必须遵循事物的秩序。

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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

所有人也将铭记这一神圣的原则,即虽然多数人的意愿在所有情况下都占上风,但这种合法的意愿必须是合理的;少数人拥有平等的权利,而平等的法律必须保护这些权利,侵犯这些权利就是压迫。

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。