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。

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

思想是由题材的多样性和多样性来锻炼的,而性格是由对美德和邪恶的沉思来塑造的。

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

我认为家庭是世界上最荒唐、最不体面的事情发生的地方。

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

这种差别太好了——美德在哪里结束,罪恶在哪里开始。