The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

  • -- George Gilbert Aime Murray 乔治·吉尔伯特·艾梅·默里

全世界普通人的生命、自由、财产和幸福完全掌握在少数几个人的手中,他们从未见过,也从未听说过复杂的争吵。

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If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

如果哥本哈根是一个人,这个人应该慷慨,美丽,年老,但有才华。一个人有一定的争吵倾向,充满想象力,对新事物充满欲望,对旧事物充满敬意——一个能很好地照顾人和事的人。

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

只有当所有的人,男人和女人,都同样自由的时候,我才是真正自由的。他人的自由非但不会否定或限制我的自由,相反,它是我自由的必要前提和确证。

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

个人的自由不是文明的礼物。在任何文明出现之前,它是最伟大的。

To sense the peace of extinguished passion happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge.

在不知道终极知识的情况下,感受熄灭的激情和幸福的平静。

The dog that is quarrelsome and not strong, woe to his hide.

好争竞不强壮的狗,有祸了。

Happiness is only real when shared.

幸福只有与人分享时才是真正的幸福。