The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

  • -- Robert Edward Lee 李将军

“诚实是最好的政策”这句陈词滥调遭到了“诚实不是政策”的公正批评。真正诚实的人,诚实来自于对正确的信念,而不是政策。

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And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.

在此,我建议你把你最信任的家人派到你的土地上最好的庄园去,他们将在八月里出现在你的面前,负责管理谷物,并按照上面所说的那样守护它。

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

商业上最好的东西,也就是艺术上最差的东西,大体上是最成功的。

I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

我是一个很有常识的人,抓住了很多好的机会,非常非常幸运。

To you i was a phase, for me it was the closet I've ever been to the real thing.

对你来说,我是一个阶段,对我来说,那是我去过的最真实的地方。