The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

  • -- Alexander Pope 亚历山大·波普

这种差别太好了——美德在哪里结束,罪恶在哪里开始。

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Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.

再一次,我们拒绝大多数自助出版的书籍,除非它们有特殊的记录。然而,我们只接受了一小部分,并以不错的价格卖给了主要出版商。但这是一个例外。

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

因为厚颜无耻是一种恶习,所以并不意味着谦虚是一种美德;它建立在羞耻的基础上,是我们天性中的一种激情,根据动机所产生的行为,它可以是好是坏。

Well I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.

我变得越来越快乐,这很好。

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

也许,美德只不过是心灵上的礼貌。

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

顺境发现恶习,逆境发现美德。

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to vice.

快乐是罪恶的最大诱因。