"What his designs for Rome? There, my brother, there tends my secret soul! As for these petty towns and petty tyrants, I care not how they fall, or by whom. But the Pope must not return to Rome. Rome must be mine. The city of a new empire, the conquest of a new Attila! There, every circumstance combines in my favour! - the absence of the Pope, the weakness of the middle class, the poverty of the populace, the imbecile though ferocious barbarism of the Barons, have long concurred to render Rome the most facile, while the most glorious conquest!"英文原著 · 《Rienzi》
At noon, to the Royall Oak taverne in Lombard Street; where Sir William Petty and the owners of the double-bottomed boat (the Experiment) did entertain my Lord Brouncker, Sir A. Murrey, myself, and others, with marrow bones, and a chine of beef of the victuals they have made for this ship; and excellent company and good discourse: but, above all, I do value Sir William Petty. Thence home; and took my Lord Sandwich's draught of the harbour of Portsmouth down to Ratcliffe, to one Burston, to make a plate for the King, and another for the Duke, and another for himself; which will be very neat.英文原著 · 《The Diary of Samuel Pepys》
But like infection is the petty thought: it creepeth and hideth, and wanteth to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection.英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
Too long have we acknowledged them to be right, those petty people: SO we have at last given them power as well;--and now do they teach that 'good is only what petty people call good.'英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
For to-day have the petty people become master: they all preach submission and humility and policy and diligence and consideration and the long et cetera of petty virtues.英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
Surpass, ye higher men, the petty virtues, the petty policy, the sand-grain considerateness, the ant-hill trumpery, the pitiable comfortableness, the "happiness of the greatest number"--!英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
You know, why don't we. why don't we let petty larceny slide, too?美剧 · 《Billions》
There's still a romance to the judicial branch that certainly transcends the petty politicking in the executive.美剧 · 《Billions》
"Dear Monty, never give in, never give in, never, never, never, in nothing, great or small, large or petty.美剧 · 《Billions》
Dylan and Petty used to make a game of it, in fact.美剧 · 《Billions》