Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

  • -- Honoré de Balzac 尊敬的巴尔扎克

也许,美德只不过是心灵上的礼貌。

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

就我们的政治利益而言,我们比世界上任何其他民族都更彻底地是一个开明的民族。我们当中的每一个人都读书,在他所处的环境中,读书是如此的容易,以致于有空闲的时间来讨论进步和获取信息。

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

因为孤立的动物利己主义是一种倾向于保护和改善物种的美德:在任何一种群体中,它都是一种破坏性的恶习。

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

也许不负责任而正确比负责任而错误要好。

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

谦逊是一切美德的坚实基础。