It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

-- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

恶的作用是把善保持在合理的范围之内。

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It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

很明显，做一个好人比做一个坏人要难得多。看起来，这个世界从根本上来说是一个邪恶的地方。所以为了做一个好人，你必须与诱惑和罪恶作斗争。

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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

亵渎是一种残忍的恶习。沉溺其中的人不是君子。

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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

美德有它自己的奖赏，却没有票房。

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Virtue is its own revenge.

美德本身就是一种报复。

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