The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

美德和恶习都是由兴趣引起的。

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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

有一种夸大其词的成分附属于大众的判断:大恶习愈演愈烈,大美德也愈演愈烈;有趣的事件变得更有趣,更柔和的传说变得更柔和。

I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

我现在回想一下,天体的运动是圆的,因为适合于球体的运动是在圆中旋转。

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

懒惰是万恶之始,是美德之冠。

Never mistake motion for action.

永远不要把动作当成行动。