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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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。

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

因为我们说的和做的每件事都是我们灵魂的长度和影子,我们的影响力是由我们的存在的质量决定的。

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

我想我是在保持质量,但我的内心是在为此付出代价。

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

习惯如果不加以抵制,很快就会变成必需。