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

  • -- Napoleon Bonaparte 拿破仑·波拿巴

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。

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Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

虽然所有好的艺术都是为了把人的思想从罪恶中拉出来,并把它引向更美好的事物,但这一功能可以通过艺术得到更充分的发挥,它也提供了非凡的智力乐趣。

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

恶与善为邻,恶与善混淆;正如对一个善良的人来说,报告自己的好品质是令人愉快的,因此,与之相反的关系也不应该是令人不快的。

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

没有恶习是好的,但没有诱惑就不好了。

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

谦卑,是低微甜美的根,是一切属天美德的根。