Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

  • -- Blaise Pascal 巴斯卡

还有比这更愚蠢的事吗?一个人住在河的另一边,他的统治者和我的统治者发生了争吵,而我却没有和他争吵过。

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People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to credit the serene indifference with which they consider events outside their own country.

议会里的人忙于个人仇恨和小争吵,很少考虑国家利益。他们对自己国家以外发生的事情漠不关心,这是不可能的。

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

我觉得战争只应该发生在最重要和必要的原因,而且只有在那时。

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

邪恶胜利的唯一必要条件是好人什么也不做。

Love's quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

爱的争吵常常为了讨得和睦的结局。

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

在战争中,亚军是没有奖品的。

Evil is soon done, but slowly mended.

恶有恶报,但要慢慢来。