Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society

  • -- Henry St. John 亨利圣约翰

自由之于集体,健康之于每一个个体。没有健康,人就尝不到快乐;没有自由,社会就不能享受幸福

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The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.

习惯所带来的痛苦,以及遵循习惯所带来的内在乐趣,都是大自然赋予我们意志的动机,通常我们并不在意为什么要这样做;她有时甚至命令说,她的理由决不是我们的。

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

没有变化,就没有创新、创造力或改进的动力。那些发起变革的人将有更好的机会来管理不可避免的变革。

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

我们的祖先犯了一个错误。他们应该争取的是不征税的代表权。

I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.

我想要孩子,但现在我终于拥有的自由,价值太高了。

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

没有自由,一个国家不能很好地生存;没有美德,自由也不能很好地生存。

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

我有时想知道是否所有的快乐都不是快乐的替代品。