Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

只要罪恶还能忍受,人类宁可忍受,也不愿为了正义而废除他们所习惯的形式。

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O mankind, We have created you male and female, and appointed you races and tribes, that you may know one another. Surely the noblest among you in the sight of God is the most god fearing of you. God is All-knowing, All-aware.

人类啊,我们创造了你们男性和女性,指定了你们种族和部落,好让你们彼此认识。在神面前,你们中间谁为大,谁就敬畏你。神是全知的,全知的。

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

从那时到现在,一直在进步,一直在变化。这些变化并不是自发的;这些变化来自这个国家每个人的行动。

Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.

有时候眼睛会变得如此习惯,如果你没有改变,你会感到无聊。你知道,时尚也是如此。我想,这就是风格。

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

如果一个人郁郁寡欢,就由他自己去好了。没有人有权利在社会上大声疾呼,更糟糕的是,他看起来像是在压抑悲伤。

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

在我的理想世界里,没有孩子会受苦。慈善本能将占上风。全球将接受所有不同类型的人。

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

对幸福的蔑视通常是对他人幸福的蔑视,是对人类仇恨的优雅伪装。

Cities don’t change people. People don’t even change people. We are who we are.

城市不会改变人。人甚至不会改变人。我们就是我们。

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

我认为任何人都有以自己的方式下地狱的不可剥夺的权利。

I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.

我受了太多的苦,无法隐藏自己的感情。