None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

  • -- Edgar Watson Howe 埃德加·沃森·豪

我们谁也不能夸耀祖先的道德。记录没有显示亚当和夏娃结过婚。

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Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?

首先,你难道没有看到,作为一种精神上的抽象,肉体的力量与道德是直接对立的吗?第二,它实际上将道德力量驱逐出去?

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

杰出的祖先给他们的后代带来了强大的光芒,禁止隐瞒他们的优点或缺点。

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

道德和权宜之计的重合超过了愤世嫉俗者所允许的。

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

我们忘记了灵魂有它自己的祖先。