If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

  • -- Van Wyck Brooks 范·威克·布鲁克斯

如果人类本质上是邪恶的,那么谁还会费心去改善这个世界,而不是一开始就把它当作一份糟糕的工作而放弃呢?

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We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them.

我们爱别人,不是因为他们对我们做的好事,而是因为我们对他们做的好事。

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

如果你心里没有任何慈善,你就有最严重的心脏病。

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

相信别人的邪恶是一种罪过,但很少是错误的。

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

你们要顺服今世的祸患,恐怕有更大的祸患临到你们。