It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

  • -- Chanakya 考底利耶

宁可死,不愿受辱而保全生命。生命的丧失,使人暂时忧愁;羞耻,使人一生一世愁苦。

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Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

私有化进程缓慢。当非常大的事情发生时,比如私有化,历史学家和经济学家喜欢认为你一定有非常大的原因。事情不是这样发生的。

You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.

你赌马比赌人好。马也许不能紧紧地抱着你,但他不想在晚上从马厩里出来。

The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.

失去了一些东西,即使失去了,也从来没有想过,感觉不到,或寻找不到,但这并不是一种损失。

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

一个什么都不读的人比一个除了报纸什么都不读的人受教育程度更高。

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

我没必要这么说。我必须把它写下来。这已经够痛苦的了。

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

我们有数百万人没有保险,这是一种耻辱。

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

那只不过是一个人的耻辱,他活该受罪。

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

我们只能失去我们已经拥有的。