We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

  • -- Mason Cooley 梅森·库利

我们更多的是被自己的缺点所束缚,而不是美德。

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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

我们生活中太多的时间都花在考虑自己的缺点上,以至于没有时间去改善我们想象中的优点。事实上,我们只是在完善我们的罪恶,人死后比出生时更坏。

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

我们渴望一种全然不知道自己缺点的感情。天赐给我们这种不加批判的犬类依恋。

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

这是野心的一贯缺点和不可分割的邪恶品质,它从不回头看。

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

在现实中,我们的美德往往与伪装起来的恶习无异。