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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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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Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

没有什么比公共开支更容易的了。它似乎不属于任何人。把它送给别人的诱惑是压倒性的。

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To create is to resist; to resist is to create.

创造就是反抗;抗拒就是创造。

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Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

永远不要屈服于痛苦的诱惑。

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Virtue is insufficient temptation.

美德是不够的诱惑。

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