All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

所有重要的事实都是私人的事实。当它们公诸于众时,就不再成为真理;它们成为事实,或者至多成为公众性格的一部分;或者最坏的情况是,流行语。

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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

如果观察到的准确无误的事实与它留下的任何选择都不相符,那么这个系统本身就需要重建。

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

如果死亡意味着离开舞台的时间足够长,可以换一身戏服,以一个新角色的身份回来,你会放慢脚步吗?或加速?

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

想象你自己是一个角色,一个模范人物,你决定以他为榜样,无论在公开场合还是私下里。

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

如果个人美德的根病了,公共廉洁的果实就必然腐败。

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

任何人、任何地点、任何时间都无权危害公共安全。

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

如果你要使用公共资源,你就需要公共利益。

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

首先获得事实,然后你可以随意歪曲它们。

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

女人真正的光彩在于她的品格,她的纯洁。