Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

  • -- E. M. Forster E·M·福斯特

宽容是一种很枯燥的美德。它是无聊的。不像爱情,它总是有一个坏的媒体。它是负的。它只是意味着容忍别人,能够忍受事情。

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In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

因此,在一种极其平等和美德的状态下,在一种纯粹和简单的礼仪占主导地位的情况下,人类的增长显然将远远超过迄今所知的任何增长。

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

希望是活着的状态所固有的最早的和最不可缺少的美德。如果要维持生命,就必须保持希望,即使信心受损,信任也会受损。

What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.

宽容是什么?这是人性的结果。我们都是由脆弱和错误组成的;让我们相互原谅对方的愚蠢——这是自然的第一法则。

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

如果总是有不止一种解释文本的方法是正确的,那么并不是所有的解释都是平等的。