The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

  • -- Paul Ricoeur 保罗·利科

道德律要求我们把世界上可能达到的最高善作为我们一切行为的最终目标。

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If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

如果人们知道违反道德,他们应该把他们送到道德委员会。如果你认为有严重的违反道德的行为应该被调查,你不会为了报复而隐瞒。

In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it.

在旧的契约中,人们把牛犊的血洒在身体上,以约束他们遵守律法;否则,我们一定会因为破坏了它而受到诅咒。

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

我们对父母的感激之情是向前的,而不是向后的。我们欠父母的是孩子们给我们的账单。

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

我只是一个人,但我就是一个人。我不能做所有的事,但我能做一些事。我不会让我不能做的事妨碍我能做的事。

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

法律很容易受到知识分子或道德风尚的影响,然后它将其确认为我们最基本概念的命令。

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

只要生命存在,就必须相信某种东西,这种残忍的必要性并不特别证明任何信仰是正当的。

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.

不要害怕生活。相信生活是有价值的,你的信念会帮助你创造出这样的事实。

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

为自己或朋友复仇不仅是一种权利,更是一种绝对的责任。

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

不道德的本质是倾向于对自己破格。

I've since become really good at overwhelming myself.

从那以后,我变得非常擅长战胜自己。

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

生命的意义是什么?快乐和有用。

I don't even think my voice is really good.

我甚至不认为我的声音很好。