Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

有些美德只出现在苦难中,而另一些美德只出现在顺境中。

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Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

苦难是美德的学校;它纠正轻浮,打断犯罪的信心。

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

少年人哪,苦难不是徒然从那良善的神那里来的。

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

繁荣是旧约的祝福;逆境是新的祝福。

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

一个人只有尝过苦难之后,才会体会到成功的滋味。

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

美德是荣誉之源。

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

有预谋的美德没有多大价值。