The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

  • -- Samuel Richardson 塞缪尔·理查森

制定法律与其说是为了指导好人,不如说是为了限制坏人。

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The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

各个时代的风尚在这个方向和那个方向上各不相同,但它们在很大程度上不同于一条被希腊的想象所打破的中心道路。

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

一个人不妨试着骑两匹马向不同的方向运动,就像试着以同样的力量维持两种对立或矛盾的欲望。