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。

相关名言

A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no compulsiveness. We don't overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.

与自己保持良好的关系会让我们保持静止,但这并不意味着我们不会到处跑、跳、跳。这意味着没有强迫性。我们不会过度工作,过度饮食,过度吸烟,过度诱惑。简而言之,我们开始停止制造伤害。

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

喜欢战争是军人的优点,是上尉的危险品质,是政治家的积极罪行。

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

我们的快乐在质量上比在数量上有更多的不同。

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.

今天的坏习惯比明天更容易改掉。