1. Power is a shadow on the wall. A very small man can cast a very large shadow.
權力就像墻上的陰影，再渺小的人也能投射出巨大的影子。

2. You waste time trying to get people to love you, you'll end up the most popular dead man in town.
把時間浪費在博得別人愛戴上，你會成為世界上最受愛戴的死人。

3. It doesn't matter what we want, once we get it, then we want something else.
不管我們想要的是什么，一旦到手，我們便又會想要其他的。

4. If we die, we die. But first we'll live.
如果我們一定要死，那就死唄。但首先要好好活著。

5. A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.
要保持劍的鋒利就得時時磨拭，要保持頭腦靈光就得看書。

6. A good man does everything in his power to better his family's position regardless of his own selfish desires.
好男人應該放棄私欲，竭盡全力為家族爭取優勢地位。

7. Fear cuts deeper than swords.
恐懼比利劍更傷人。

8. If your gods are real and if they are just, why is the world so full of injustice?
如果你的神真的存在，如果他們真的公正，那為何世上盡是不公之事？

9. We mothers do what we can to keep our sons from the grave. But they do seem to yearn for it.
我們做母親的總是竭力阻止兒子們踏進墳墓。可他們偏要往里走。

10. Prodigies appear in the oddest of places.
奇才總是出現在最不可思議的地方。

（來源：滬江英語 編輯：丹妮）