Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

-- Will Durant 威尔·杜兰特

每一种恶行都曾是一种美德，并可能再次受到尊敬，就像战争时期的仇恨会受到尊敬一样。

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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

我所属的那些体面的圈子里，那个体面的圈子里的所有人，那个我不知道安全的价值的圈子，都在反对我，他们知道，一旦失去或抛弃安全，就没有什么机会来代替它了。

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

虽然野心本身是一种恶习，但它往往也是美德之母。

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If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

如果你能把生意做得足够大，那是值得尊敬的。

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Avarice is the vice of declining years.

贪婪是暮年的恶习。

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