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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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

说话习惯的共同性和连续性是智力缺陷的一种症状。它源于不知道别人在想什么。

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

我对任何对环境不好的车都不感兴趣,除了画册上的美感。

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

养成做好事的习惯不仅会影响我们周围的人,还会改善我们自己的情绪。

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

影响一天的质量,那是艺术的最高境界。