Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

  • -- Alexander Pope 亚历山大·波普

愚者钦佩,智者赞许。

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I shall always esteem it not much to live in a city where the laws do less than men, because that fatherland is desirable where possessions and friends can be securely enjoyed, not where they can be easily taken from you, and friends for few of thems.

我将永远认为,生活在一个法律不如人的城市里并没有多大的价值,因为祖国是可取的,在那里财产和朋友可以安全地享有,而不是轻易地从你那里夺走,而朋友只属于少数人。

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

欣赏是一种短暂的感情,但随着你对它对象的熟悉程度的加深,这种感情也会随之消逝。

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

战时服役只适合亡命之徒,和平时期服役只适合傻瓜。

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

只有傻瓜才活在过去,才会嫉妒现在。