No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

  • -- George Savile 萨维尔

没有人愚蠢到没有足够的智慧有时成为一个无赖;也没有哪个无赖像他那样狡猾,有时连装傻的弱点都没有。

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When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.

当我们的主说,我们必须悔改,成为小孩子的时候,我想他的意思也是,我们必须意识到我们的软弱,相对来说,就像小孩子一样。

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

强大的国家只能靠犯罪来维持自己,弱小的国家只有靠软弱才有美德。

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

人很少比在最高的场合更平凡。

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

因为人死得最多的不只是死。