What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

人们所说的友谊只不过是一种社会安排,一种利益的相互调整,一种给予和接受服务的交换;总之,这只是一个简单的业务,涉及的人建议从中获得稳定的利润,为自己的爱。

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As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

因此,进步仅仅意味着更大的权力、更多的利润、更高的生产率、更多的纸张繁荣,所有这些都可以转化为只与大小或规模有关的标准,而不是质量或卓越性。

An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.

一种谅解也许比一种联盟更好,这种联盟可能使安排定型,但鉴于每天的情况不断变化,这种安排不能被认为是永久的。

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

每个说话的人都有一张嘴;安排得相当整齐。有时它充满智慧。有时候里面装满了脚。

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.

我希望生意兴隆,生意兴隆,我希望生意兴隆,我希望生意兴隆,我希望生意兴隆,我希望生意兴隆,我希望生意兴隆,我希望生意兴隆,我希望生意兴隆。