PS: If a person is very generous, then he must behave himself an emotional generosity.
You know those Arctic explorers who leave caches of food scattered on the route to the North Pole? Just in case they may need them someday? That’s my father’s favors. Someday he’ll be at each one of those people’s houses and they had better come across.
你知道北极探险家在去北极的路上,沿途总要把食物在地窖里埋起来吗?就是为了预防有一天走到那里可能需要食物。这就是我父亲为别人做好事的道理。他有一天也可能有事相求,要登门拜访他们。所以最好他们能先过来拜访下我们。
The Don helped those in misfortune whose misfortune he had partly created. Not perhaps out of cunning or planning but because of his variety of interests or perhaps because of the nature of the universe, the interlinking of good and evil, natural of itself.
柯里昂教父一方面在帮助那些陷于不幸的人们,但另一方面那些人的不幸一定程度上却是他造成的。这,既不是出于阴谋诡计,也不是出于刻意安排,而是由于他利益的多样性,或者说是宇宙的自然法则,善与恶的相互渗透乃是自然本身的法则。(所以说,强大你自身,是保护自己的终极之道。)
对敌理念
Don’t hate your enemy, or you will make wrong judgment.