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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We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

我们是如此痴迷于做,我们没有时间和想象力留下。因此,人们看重的不是他们是什么样的人,而是他们所做的或所拥有的——以及他们的有用性。

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

学校派人去立法机关、法院和行政机关。酒吧间把他们送上断头台和地狱。

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

不要让任何人认为灵活性和妥协的倾向是软弱或背叛的迹象。

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

性格上的弱点是唯一不能改正的缺点。