The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

  • -- Thomas Robert Malthus 马尔萨斯

对美德的考验是抵制一切邪恶的诱惑。

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I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

当有人叫我小说家时,我总是抗拒:这暗示了小说固有的某种优越性。我不是小说家,我是作家。

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one thatll get you home earlier.

中年是在两种诱惑中做出选择,还是选择能让你早点回家的那个。

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

诱惑是透过钥匙孔窥视的魔鬼。屈服是打开门,邀请他进来。

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

所有不符合公认美德的同情,都是伪装的自私。

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

反抗压迫的欲望根植于人的本性之中。

Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.

无德之美犹如没有香味的玫瑰,徒有其表。