A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
战争
War
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
当你强壮的时候显得软弱，当你虚弱的时候显得强壮。
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
战争教会我们不要爱我们的敌人，而要恨我们的盟友。
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
如果人们在战争中奴性地服从规则，他们就会失败。
War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
战争是可以避免的，也应该避免。我不要战争。
Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.
战争之所以发生，是因为发动战争的人认为他们能赢。
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
不战而屈人之兵，善之善者也。
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
战争的一个必然后果是削弱言论自由。
A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.
当一个人对自己有足够的了解时，他就会信任另一个人。
The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission.
削弱恐惧的时间是在任务之前和之后。
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
艺术和文学的支柱，就像战争的支柱一样，是金钱。
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
婚前睁大眼睛，婚后半闭眼睛。
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
所有的战争都是愚蠢的，非常昂贵，也非常有害。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.
战争是撒旦为了腐化我们的心灵而发明的最大的邪恶。我们应该尊敬我们的战士，但绝不应该尊敬战争。
All over the world, people are asked to sacrifice in the effort to win a war, but they are never asked what they would sacrifice in order to end a war.
在世界各地，人们都被要求为赢得一场战争而做出牺牲，但从来没有人问过他们为了结束一场战争会做出什么牺牲。
When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.
当军官过于强大，普通士兵过于软弱时，结果就是崩溃。
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
滑铁卢战役很可能是在伊顿公学的操场上打赢的，但后来所有战争的首场战役都在那里输掉了。
“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”
“在这样一个冲突的世界，一个受害者和刽子手的世界，有思想的人的工作，不是站在刽子手一边。”
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
和平是文明的美德。战争是它的罪行。