There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

  • -- Maxim Gorky 高尔基

世上没有人比施舍的人更可憎、更可厌。即使没有人比接受它们的人更痛苦。

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Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.

大地教我忘记自己,正如融化的雪忘记了它的生命。大地教我听天由命,就像秋天里枯死的树叶。大地教会我勇气,就像那棵孤独的树。大地教我重生,就像春天发芽的种子。

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

如果一个人认为一个人所做的一切都应该是正确和可靠的,即使是确定一个关税税率也必须是合乎道德的,那么他拒绝接受这一观点,认为这是一个处于权力地位的人所面临的最大危险。

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.

是的,你们在经营企业,是的,我们理解并接受这一点,但毫无疑问,在一定程度上,从新闻中获利是不体面的。

Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.

这是有道理的,地球很快就会消耗掉非自然物质的血肉。