The motive for a deed usually changes during its performance: at least, after the deed has been done, it seems quite different.

  • -- Christian Friedrich Hebbel 克里斯蒂安·腓特烈·赫贝尔

行为的动机通常在其执行过程中发生变化:至少,在行为完成之后,看起来是完全不同的。

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We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

我们只能把自己的罪恶写得很好,因为我们很难回忆起一件善行,甚至是善恶动机的结果。

Our motives are far more successfully hidden from ourselves than they are from others.

我们的动机对自己隐藏得比对别人隐藏得更成功。