All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

  • -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 柯勒律治

所有不符合公认美德的同情,都是伪装的自私。

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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

我认为首要的美德是管住舌头;他最接近知道如何保持沉默的神,即使他是对的。

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.

美德常在贫穷的磐石上跌倒。