If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.

  • -- Frederick Pollock 波洛克

如果你否认任何行为准则都是所有试图理性行事的人所共有的,并得到他们的承认,那么,我看不出你怎么会有任何道德或法律方面的道德背景。

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What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man.

我想做的可能不会成功。我所做的——我可能不对——是做一些非常私人的事情,然后我突然看着它,在空中。我把它吹大,看着它,然后我又下来了——一个更好的男人。

In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy.

在战斗中,吊床和被褥都被牢牢地绑在一起,固定在后甲板上的铁丝网上,或者是那些暴露在敌人视野或炮火下的人。

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

合理生活最有效的方式是每天早上制定一个计划,每天晚上检查所得到的结果。

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

总会有努力改变的人,总会有被过去控制的人。

Instead of imagining the frightening and the ugly, I will try to find the beautiful in everyday things.

与其想象可怕和丑陋,我要试着在日常生活中发现美好。

Golf is supposed to be fun, but I don't think anything is fun if you're not doing it reasonably well.

高尔夫本来应该是很有趣的,但如果你做得不够好,我不认为任何事情都是有趣的。

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

谁会给爱人制定法律呢?爱本身就是一条更高的法则。

Law governs man, and reason the law.

法律管人,理性管法律。