If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

  • -- Woodrow Wilson 伍德罗威尔逊

如果你想想你应该为别人做些什么,你的性格会照顾好自己。性格是一种副产品,任何一个人如果把自己的性格培养成这样,他就会变成一个自私的一本正经的人。

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Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

毫无疑问,良心足以引导最冷酷的人走上美德之路;热情之于良知,犹如荣誉之于责任;我们身上有一种多余的灵魂,当美好的事物完成后,把它奉献给美丽的事物是很甜蜜的。

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

非洲人的道德和智力特征在不同的国家有很大的不同。