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The law often allows what honor forbids.

  • -- Bernard Joseph Saurin 伯纳德·约瑟夫·索林

法律允许而荣誉禁止。

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We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

我们生来什么都不知道，经过努力，我们学到的只是一点点;然而，我们始终受到法律的约束，这些法律不听任何无知的辩解，以平静的冷漠来衡量它们的奖惩。

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Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

不要说荣誉是勇敢的产物，也不要相信只有生命的危险才能为它付出代价:它不在于行动，而在于行动的方式。

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Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

荣誉的头衔就像硬币上的印痕，不能增加金银的价值，只能使铜流通。

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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

礼仪是所有法律中最不重要的，但它却是最严格遵守的法律。

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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

法律太温和，很少有人遵守;太严厉，很少执行。

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Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

把自己的意志当作法律的人是无法无天的。

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