A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
财产
Possessions
No man can lose what he never had.
没有人能失去他从未拥有过的东西。
We are not the sum of our possessions.
我们不是财富的总和。
All my possessions for a moment of time.
我所有的一切都是为了那一刻的时光。
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
在所有的财产中,朋友是最宝贵的。
Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately.
拥有会立即降低对价值的感知。
I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.
我想,除非死者在这片土地上,否则没有人拥有这片土地。
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
爱能征服一切,除了贫穷和牙痛。
Be unselfish in your love. Remember, you are not the cat.
在你的爱中要无私。记住,你不是猫。
Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
文化和财产,有资产阶级为你。
Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?
除了我的家人,没有什么是真正珍贵的财产,你知道吗?
It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.
是时候永久废除人们留给子女的财产税了。
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
一个自由的生活不可能获得很多财产,因为这是不容易做到的奴性对暴徒或君主。
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
我喜欢在装饰世界的美丽事物中漫步;但是私人财产,或者任何个人财产,我都会减少,因为它们会夺走我的自由。
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
不必要的财产是不必要的负担。如果你有它们,你必须照顾它们!简单的生活有很大的自由。最幸福的人是那些拥有足够但不太多的人。
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
世界的丰富性,所有人为的快乐,都有病态的味道,在面对某些精神财富时散发出死亡的气息。
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
财富的拥有者几乎不可能对那些几乎或几乎是他们财产的肥沃来源的过程漠不关心。
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
许多财产,即使不能使一个人变得更好,至少也能使他的孩子更幸福;这种可怜的希望是许多努力的背后。
Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?
根据同样的原则,人也不能被看作是财产中的土地、货物或房屋。所有的财产都应低于其拥有者是必要的。但是奴隶和主人有什么不同呢?