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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

  • -- Alfred North Whitehead 阿尔弗雷德北怀特黑德

在任何特定的时间或地点，道德是什么?这是当时和当时大多数人碰巧喜欢的，不道德是他们不喜欢的。

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The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

从伟大的小说中放射出来的光芒，时间永远不会暗淡，因为人类的存在总是被人类所遗忘，因此，小说家的发现，无论多么古老，永远不会停止使人惊讶。

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I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house.

我认为一个人自始至终都是同一个人，只不过从一个房间到另一个房间的这些时间的流逝，可以说都是在同一所房子里度过的。

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Good people don't need laws to tell them to act responsibly and bad people will find a way around the laws.

好人不需要法律来告诉他们要负责任，坏人会找到绕过法律的方法。

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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

最伟大的思想既能成就最大的美德，也能成就最大的罪恶。

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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

文明国家的主要商业活动是金钱，而不是道德。

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