The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

  • -- Woodrow Wilson 伍德罗威尔逊

这个世界不是在寻找仆人,有很多这样的人,而是在寻找主人,这些人形成了自己的目标,然后实现了它们,让结果顺其自然。

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I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.

我认为成为一名艺术家比以往任何时候都难。我认为你最终,尤其是作为一个中年人,你要为说“我要把我的一生奉献给艺术”或“我要把我的一生奉献给写小说”而付出巨大的代价。“你最终会一无所有。

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

一个男人和他的妻子之间,除了爱,没有什么可以支配。权柄是给孩童和仆人的,却不是不可爱的。

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

人类所有的罪,其后果似乎比其意图更为严重。