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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

  • -- Walter Bagehot 沃尔特·巴格霍特

没有恶习是好的，但没有诱惑就不好了。

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Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

自然似乎在每个人的出生时就已经划定了他的美德和罪恶的界限，并决定了这个人能有多好或有多坏。

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You never know what you're made of until temptation comes knocking. The only temptation I've given in to is to have one more slice.

你永远不知道自己是什么做的，直到诱惑来敲门。我唯一屈服的诱惑就是再吃一块。

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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

暂时接受较小的恶也许是必要的，但永远不要把必要的恶贴上善的标签。

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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

我们并不轻视所有有恶习的人，但我们确实鄙视那些没有美德的人。

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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

我们发现在许多事情上，禁止它们是唯一的诱惑。

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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

没有人能以权宜为理由作恶。

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