A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

  • -- Napoleon Bonaparte 拿破仑·波拿巴

革命既不能进行,也不能停止。唯一能做的就是让它的几个孩子中的一个凭借胜利给它指明方向。

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One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

一个人不妨试着骑两匹马向不同的方向运动,就像试着以同样的力量维持两种对立或矛盾的欲望。

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

真正重要的是意志的方向和坚定性,而智力和情感的重要性只在于它们对意志的贡献。

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings, usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

政治动荡,就像地质剧变一样,开启了世界进步的新纪元。

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

每一场革命都烟消云散,留下的只有新官僚主义的黏液。