根据这种思想，当个人可以自由地追求自己的利益时，社会公益就实现了。

Social good, according to this thinking, is achieved when individuals are free to pursue their self-interests.

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远离巴黎的花花世界，普普通通的人过着平静而有意义的生活，这种生活充满了个人自由的理想。

Away from the sophisticated glitter of Paris, the ordinary people lived calm and purposeful lives filled with the ideal of personal liberty.

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从个人角度看，你当然是喜欢付出更少，得到更多了，但这种行为在自由贸易中会被冠以“国际收支逆差”的大帽子。

In your private household, you would surely prefer to pay less for more rather than the other way around, yet that would be termed an "unfavorable balance of payments" in foreign trade.

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But as many of you know, and certainly you will find out here, they had pretty clear ideas of who ought to have those individual liberties and who would not, who indeed were born equal and who were not.

但是正如你们许多人知道的,当然你们在这里也会发现,他们非常清楚,谁该拥有这种个人自由,而谁不该,哪些人天生就是平等的,而哪些人不是

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