I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

我很遗憾地认为,只有激怒了一个人,你才能得到他最有效的批评。严峻的事实是用一些苦涩来表达的。

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I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.

我是一个把过去发生在我身上的一切都带进未来的人。我拒绝让它让我痛苦。我仍然完全相信爱情,我对发生在我身上的任何事情都保持开放的心态。

Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

当然,做一个好人,做一个有效的统治者是不够的,而且从来都不是。

I always try to be reasonable and effective.

我总是尽量做到合理有效。