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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It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

很明显,做一个好人比做一个坏人要难得多。看起来,这个世界从根本上来说是一个邪恶的地方。所以为了做一个好人,你必须与诱惑和罪恶作斗争。

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

爱很简单,我喜欢写作。你无法抗拒爱。你有了一个想法,有人说了些什么,你恋爱了。

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

每个人的一生都是一个从天真,通过诱惑,到美德或罪恶的过程。

Those are fools however learned who have not learned to walk with the world.

没有学会与世界同行的人,才是有学问的傻瓜。

Virtue alone is happiness; all else is else, and without praise.

只有美德才是幸福;一切都是别的,没有赞美。

What we resist persists.

我们抗拒的东西会一直存在。