I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

  • -- William Tecumseh Sherman 威廉·特库姆塞·谢尔曼

我从事实和推理中得出我的意见,我的意见只适合我自己。如果人们不喜欢我的观点,那也没什么区别,因为我不征求他们的意见或投票。

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Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.

偶尔你开始重新考虑,然后你读了一封来自某人的信,这让你的精神振奋了很多——这真的会产生很大的不同。我喜欢读它们。

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

如果伪造者和罪犯被世俗权力处死,那么就有更多的理由将一个被判异端的人逐出教会,甚至处死。

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

在任何情况下,准确对美都是有利的,对细腻的情感则是合理的推理。我们贬低另一个人是徒劳的。

It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

“在我看来”,这句话几乎没什么可说的——甚至不谦虚。自然一句话只是你的意见;你又不是教皇。

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

任何两个人之间的差别,都不可能比同一个人、情人和丈夫之间的差别更大。

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

我们积累意见的年龄是我们的理解力最薄弱的时候。

If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there.

如果你不知道你要去哪里,任何一条路都会把你带到那里。