Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters

  • -- Nathaniel Emmons 纳撒尼尔·埃蒙斯

习惯不是最好的仆人,就是最坏的主人

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Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed.

习惯比理智磨损得更频繁、更猛烈,而在我们最需要理智的时候,却很少有人去公平地考虑它,也很少有人去服从它。

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

优秀的品德是习惯的结果。我们通过正义的行为变得正义,通过有节制的行为变得有节制,通过勇敢的行为变得勇敢。