No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

  • -- Bernard de Mandeville 曼德维尔

没有一种习惯或品质比虚伪更容易获得,也没有一种东西比否认我们内心的情感和行为准则更容易学会。但是,每一种激情的种子都是与生俱来的,没有人不带着它们来到这个世界。

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If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

如果你在森林里,回声的质量是非常奇怪的,因为所有这些树木的很多表面都有回声,你会产生这种奇怪的,痒的弹跳效果。

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

人在很大程度上是一种习惯的动物,他的许多活动或多或少是来自环境刺激的自动反应。

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

大赦对施予者和受予者同样有益。它具有向双方施与怜悯的令人钦佩的品质。

Things have a habit of working out, you know. Eventually.

你知道,事情总有解决的习惯。最终。