When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

  • -- Honoré de Balzac 尊敬的巴尔扎克

当女人爱我们时,她们会原谅我们的一切,甚至包括我们的罪行;当他们不爱我们的时候,他们会毫无理由地赞扬我们,甚至是我们的美德。

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In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.

在公共安全受到迫在眉睫的威胁,一个国家的命运可能取决于某一行动的日子里,我们应该把坦率的言论,置于所有人之上,归功于最高权威的上帝。我要像对人那样对你说话。

But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.

但也许是因为网络世界给人们提供的职位更年轻,而且许多女性在这个行业中很突出,这将有助于改变关于谁能管理大公司的看法。

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

没有欲望就没有美德,因为一个人想要别人不想要的东西,谁能说他想要的孩子是罪恶还是美德呢?

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

人类的利益总是驱使他们向正确的方向发展,这是一种有福的必然性;再一次,让所有的犯罪变得卑鄙和丑陋。

It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.

接受教育让我很高兴,就像打开了一扇大窗户。

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

女人需要知道的是没有人给你权力。你就拿去吧。

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

谦虚不仅是装饰品,而且是美德的守卫。

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

人有思想的能力,可以避免犯罪。

Forgiveness is healing. Especially forgiving yourself.

宽恕是愈合。尤其是原谅自己。

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

犯罪的成功总是招致更坏的行为。