In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

在罪恶中我们是美德,反之亦然。

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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。

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

许多人一生中都紧紧地抓住两个彼此陌生的朋友,因为其中一个因为相似而相互吸引,另一个因为不同而相互吸引。

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

别人的耻辱常使温柔的心远离罪恶。

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

美德本身就是对自己最公正的奖赏。