Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

  • -- William Temple 坦普尔

没有什么比习俗更能加强和巩固权威了;因为没有人轻易地不信任他和所有人一直以来所养成的习惯。

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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

我向特殊人物的权威低头,因为这是我自己的理智强加于我的。

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

没有男人好到不经女人同意就支配她的地步。