All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

  • -- Charles Austin Beard 比尔德

历史的全部教训用四句话概括: 神要谁灭亡,必先使谁因势力而发狂。 天网恢恢,疏而不漏。天网恢恢,疏而不漏。 蜜蜂使它抢夺的花受精。 当足够黑的时候,你可以看到星星。

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Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

不要忘记一个人的生活的目的是改善人类自身,所以,他可能离开这个世界,在他伟大的球或小,做一些有利于他的生物和有点困难减少世界上的罪恶和悲伤。

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.

把永不后悔、永不后悔作为生活的准则。后悔是一种可怕的精力浪费;你不能依赖它;它只是用来打滚的。

I gave you my heart and that's all I can give you and if that's not enough for you then I'm not enough for you.

我把我的心给了你,这是我能给你的一切,如果这还不够你,那我也不够你。

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

如果我能阻止一颗心的破碎,我就不会白活。

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.

演员必须在那里工作,这就足够了。

There are no creeds in mathematics.

数学中没有信条。