The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

  • -- Percy Bysshe Shelley 珀西·比西·雪莱

有美德的人不命令,也不服从。

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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

一个人如果在私生活中没有高尚的情操,那么他就会,或者很快就会,对他的国家失去所有的尊重。很少有一个人因为背叛祖国而感到内疚,他以前从未在私人关系中丧失过道德义务的感觉。

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

人的自由完全在于他遵守自然法则,因为他自己承认这些法则,而不是因为这些法则是由任何外来意志强加给他的,无论是人类的还是神圣的,集体的还是个人的。

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

我知道向我炫耀财富的人,就像向我炫耀贫穷的乞丐;他们都在向我乞求施舍,富人向我的嫉妒乞求施舍,穷人向我的罪恶乞求施舍。

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

事实上,爱有两种,一种是命令,一种是服从。这两者是截然不同的,其中一个引起的激情不是另一个的激情。

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

总而言之,我们可以说柏拉图哲学的目的是把人提升为神。

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

最贤惠的人是那些满足于自己的贤惠而不刻意表现出来的人。