The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

  • -- Thomas Hobbes 托马斯·霍布斯

自然权利…是每个人都有自由,可以根据自己的意愿使用自己的权力,以保护自己的本性;也就是说,他自己的生命。

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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

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

Show me a better man. Name one and I am answered; but do not point, as a disqualification, to the very facts which make this man fit beyond all others.

让我看看一个更好的男人。说出一个,我就得到回答;但是,不要把使这个人比其他任何人都适合的事实作为一种不合格的说明。

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

假定一个人可能会滥用自然的自由,就剥夺他的这种自由,人们会发现这是一种不公正和不明智的嫉妒。

Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation.

不管他的政策是对是错,他都树立了国家的光荣。

We must all make the choice between what is right and what is easy.

我们都必须在正确和容易之间做出选择。

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

每个人都是上天创造的,有时甚至更糟。