To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

  • -- Richard Whately 理查德·怀特利

遵循不完善的、不确定的或腐败的传统,以避免在我们自己的判断中犯错,只不过是用一种危险来交换另一种危险。

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Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

秩序是头脑的健全,身体的健康,城市的和平,国家的安全。秩序之于万物,犹如房屋之梁,房屋之骨。

Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to.

没有人需要向任何人证明自己的价值,只需要向镜中的自己证明。那是你唯一需要回答的人。

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

我认为每个艺术家都应该追随他们的愿景,他们的内心是他们需要揭示的,而不是社会所期待的。

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

今天的大多数黑人罪犯已经认识到,在一个不公正的秩序下,他们是最受虐待的受害者。

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

让我看看另一种快乐,就像每天的晚餐,持续一个小时。

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

追随你美丽的阳光,不幸的影子。