National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

  • -- Arthur Schopenhauer 亚瑟·叔本华

民族性格只是人类的渺小、变态和卑劣在每个国家所表现出来的特殊形式的另一个名称。凡国民戏笑别国的民,都是公义的。

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It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

的确,人类自己创造了这个由民族组成的世界……但是,毫无疑问,这个世界产生于一种思想,这种思想往往是多样化的,有时是完全相反的,而且总是超越人们向自己提出的特定目标。

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

联合国系统仍然是使世界不那么脆弱的最好工具。