Israel was chosen by Yahweh in an act of spontaneous love it does not imply her perfection an act of spontaneous love for the patriarchs.

以色列被上帝选择是出于一种无意识的爱,这并不暗示着她是完美的,只是对族长无意识的喜欢。

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The universal state will never allow for or does not allow for the kind of self-perfection that a small, self-governing polis will have.

万国之城将永不会允许,或说不会允许一种自我完善,那只有在小型，自治的城邦中才行得通。

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That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called. Retain that dear perfection which he owes without that title.

我们叫做玫瑰的这一种花要是换了个名字,它的香味还是同样的芬芳，罗密欧要是，换了别的名字，他的可爱的完美,也决不会有丝毫改变。

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His in other words seems to be a highly personal in many ways highly individual quest for self perfection and not a doctrine about the value of freedom of speech in general.

换言之，他崇高的个人,从许多层面来看，是他崇高的个人,追求本身完美，而非关一般,言论自由价值的学说。

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