Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

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

虚伪是罪恶对美德的崇敬。

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

只有人是真诚的。当第二个人出现时,伪善就开始了。我们用赞美、闲言碎语、娱乐和风流韵事来搪塞和阻挡同胞的接近。我们用一百倍的篇幅向他掩饰我们的思想。

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

勇气是所有美德中最重要的,因为没有勇气,你就不能持续地实践任何其他美德。没有勇气,你可以反复练习任何美德,但没有勇气,你将一事无成。

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

科学进步使道德进步成为必然;因为如果人的力量增强了,阻止他滥用力量的制约就必须加强。

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

不为赞扬而欢呼,不为责备而悲伤,而是彻底了解自己的美德或能力,这是一个优秀的人的特点。

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

当你处理种族和阶级问题时,人们无法忍受,有时也会处理教会的问题,你给出的观点会冲淡虚伪。

In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.

在这个世界上,除了善行和恶行,一切都在改变;这些跟随着你,就像影子跟随着身体一样。