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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵

美德这个词对个人利益和罪恶一样有用。

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Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

虽然所有好的艺术都是为了把人的思想从罪恶中拉出来，并把它引向更美好的事物，但这一功能可以通过艺术得到更充分的发挥，它也提供了非凡的智力乐趣。

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In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

因此，在一种极其平等和美德的状态下，在一种纯粹和简单的礼仪占主导地位的情况下，人类的增长显然将远远超过迄今所知的任何增长。

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Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

许多人一生中都紧紧地抓住两个彼此陌生的朋友，因为其中一个因为相似而相互吸引，另一个因为不同而相互吸引。

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Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

我推荐一条规则:永远不要同时做两件坏事。

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