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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Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

一个人只要像试探人的人那样,诚心诚意地祷告,抵制诱惑,他就不需要采取更可靠的措施。

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

没有一种邪恶会绝望地毁灭我们,除非我们热爱邪恶,并且渴望继续下去,不做任何努力去摆脱它。

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

没有什么比适当的教养、一套健全的价值观和见证人更容易抵制诱惑了。

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

美德的名义和伪装对自身利益和真正的罪恶一样有用。

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

邪恶胜利的唯一必要条件是好人什么也不做。

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

人们更容易被他们的恶习所左右,而不是被他们的美德所左右。