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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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

对于一个优越的种族,作为人类对超凡圣洁和美德的自命不凡,似乎……荒谬。

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

人们应该主要从一个人的堕落来判断他。美德是可以伪造的。堕落是真实的。

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

美德是不够的诱惑。