The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

  • -- Samuel Morse 莫尔斯

因此,仅仅拥有奴隶本身并没有任何道德品质,就像为人父母、雇主或统治者一样。

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I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

我想我在大多数情况下寻找幽默是因为它使事物人性化;如果有一些幽默,它会使角色更加立体。不一定要大声笑,只是觉得事情有幽默的一面。我很喜欢。

Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others.

思考是智慧行为开始的地方。我们会暂停足够长的时间,更仔细地观察一个情况,更多地了解它的性质,思考它为什么会发生,注意它是如何影响我们和其他人的。

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

人们可能会把习惯称为道德摩擦:一种阻止思维掠过事物,但又将其与之联系起来,使其难以摆脱的东西。

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

这个故事告诉我们,事业可以在瞬间消失。在这个世界上,你所拥有的就是你所爱的人。