【英汉对照】英语谚语与名人名言集锦: Harmonious Society
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
— Earl Nightingale, American speaker and author
我们对生活的态度决定着生活对我们的态度。
—— 厄尔·南丁格尔 美国演说家、作家
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
— Havelock Ellis, British psychologist and essayist
生活的艺术在于对坚持与放弃的合理调配。
—— 亨利·哈维洛克·艾利斯 英国心理学家、作家
The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others.
——Francis Bacon, British writer
人的行为准则是：维护自己的尊严，不妨碍他人的自由。
——英国作家 培根
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
——Burke Edmund, British statesman
权力越大，滥用职权的危险就越大。
——英国政治家 埃德蒙
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasure, we must go to those who are seeking it :the pains of power is real, its pleasures imaginary.
——C.Colton Charles, British churchman
欲知权力带来的痛苦，去问那些当权者；欲知权力带来的乐趣，去问那些追逐权势者：权力带来的痛苦是真实的，而权力带来的乐趣只不过是凭空想象的。
——英国牧师 查尔斯
The people may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment. Were it fall to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers of newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
——Thomas Jefferson, American president
人民是完全可以信赖的，应该让他们听到一切真实和虚伪的东西，然后作出正确的判断。倘使让我来决定，我们应该是有一个政府而不要报纸呢，还是应该有报纸而不要政府，我会毫不犹豫选择后者。
——美国前总统 杰斐逊
Good order is the foundation of all things.
——E.Burke, Btritish statesman
良好的秩序是一切的基础。
——英国政治家 伯克
Law is order, and good law is good order.
——Aristole, Ancient Greek philosopher
法律就是秩序，有好的法律才有好的秩序。
——古希腊哲学家 亚里士多德
Virtue，as a Precious stone，is brighter against Plain background. It is the same that a simple dressed man Will call forth a fee ling of Profound respect against a graceful behavior and Virtue.
——Francis Bacon, British writer
美德好比宝石，它在朴素背景的衬托下反而更华丽。同样，一个打扮并不华贵，却端庄严肃 而又有美德的人是令人肃然起敬的。
——英国作家 培 根
Assuredly, the most gifted man errs who, in dealing with humanity, depends upon his own insight and intelligence and discards the moral law of society,created by respect for the individual, and those principles of liberty, equality and fraternity, the basis of our civilization, and the essence of Christianity.
——Ferdinand Foch, French marshal
的确，在处理人的问题时，如果只依赖个人的见识与才智，抛弃为尊重个人而制定的社会道德法律，抛弃作为我们文明基础和基督教要素的自由、平等、博爱的原则，那么，即使是最有天才的人，也肯定会犯错误。
——法国元帅 福煦
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face；a beautiful behavior than a beautiful form.
——Emerson, American thinker
美丽的形体胜于美丽的脸蛋，美丽的举止胜于美丽的形体。
——美国思想家、文学家 爱默生
There is one thing about hens that looks like wisdom——they don't cackle until they have laid their eggs.
——Josh Billings, American writer
母鸡有一点看上去是明智的——它们在下了蛋之后才咯咯叫。
——美国幽默作家 比林斯
节选自《大学英语新概念阅读教程》（第三册）（主编 李华田，武汉大学出版社，2012年6月）
