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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Love someone. It doesn't matter if you suffer. It doesn't matter if you cry. It doesn't matter if you fight. Because in the end you'll be able to say : I suffered, I cried, I fought.

爱一个人。你是否受苦并不重要。你哭也没关系。你是否战斗并不重要。因为到最后你会说:我受苦了,我哭泣了,我战斗了。

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。

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

我认为人类的大部分痛苦都是由于他们对事物的价值作了错误的估计而带来的。

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

我观察到棒球和战争没有什么不同,当你直接面对它的时候,我们击球手就是重型火炮。

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

我认为做正确的事,即使我们在这样做的过程中遭受痛苦,也比招致良心和后代的谴责要好。

The pessimist complains about the wind; The optimist expects it to change; The realist adjusts the sails.

悲观主义者抱怨风;乐观主义者期望它改变;现实主义者调整风帆。

Observe always that everything is the result of a change.

时刻注意,每件事都是变化的结果。

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

人类在最绝望的时候往往是在最好的时候。

I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now.

我很享受现在的工作。