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One is sharply conscious, yet without regret, of the limits to the possibility of mutual understanding and sympathy with one's fellow-creatures.
人們真真切切地覺得，人們的相互理解和共鳴是有界限的，雖然這沒什么可惜的。
Such a person no doubt loses something in the way of geniality and light-heartedness；
毫無 問，這樣的人會因為親切和同情心失去一些東西，
on the other hand，he is largely independent of the opinions，habits，and judgments of his fellows and avoids the temptation to take his stand on such insecure foundations.
然而另一方面，他可以在很大程度上避免別人的意見、習慣和判斷的影響，并且能夠抵住誘惑，在這些不可靠的基礎之上建立其立場。
My political ideal is that of democracy.
我的政治理想是實現民主制度。
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
尊重每一個作為個體的人摒棄偶像崇拜。
It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and respect from my fellows through no fault, and no merit, of my own.
盡管并非是我自己的過錯，也并非是我自己的功勞所獲，人們卻總是過分欽佩和尊敬我本人，這真的是一種命運的戲弄。
The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the one or two ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle.
理解一兩個我靠不懈地努力所探知到的理論，或許就是許多人充滿渴望卻又無法企及的原因。
I am quite aware that it is necessary for the success of any complex undertaking that one man should do the thinking and directing and in general bear the responsibility.
我很明白，任何復雜的事業要想取得成功，就需要有一個人能承擔起思考、指揮、全權負責的重任。
But the led must not be compelled, they must be able to choose their leader...
但是一定不要強迫被領導者，他們一定 要能夠選定自己的領導者…
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality；
在我看來，人生精彩的表演中，真正的價值不是國家，而是有創造性的、富有感知能力的個人，是人格；
it alone creates the noble and the sublime，while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
人是唯一能創造出高尚和卓越的生靈，而剩下的蕓蕓眾生在思想和感覺上總是停滯不前。
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of the herd nature, the military system, which I abhor.
這個話題讓我想起民眾本質中最壞的一種表現，即我痛恨不已的軍事制度。
