Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.

  • -- Eugene Sue 尤金·苏

美德常在贫穷的磐石上跌倒。

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Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

美德和罪恶一样危险,因为它们被允许作为权威而不是作为一个人发展自己的品质来统治一个人。

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

就我而言,比起浮夸的美德,我更喜欢沉默的恶习。

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

贫穷当然不是耻辱,但它确实令人讨厌。

Whoever hastens to grow rich will not go unpunished.

任何急于致富的人都会受到惩罚。