Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.

  • -- Thomas Aquinas 托马斯·阿奎那

忏悔有三个必要的条件:悔悟,即对罪恶的悲伤,以及修正的目的;无遗漏的认罪;并藉着善行得满足。

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I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

我抗议说,如果某个大国愿意让我永远思考什么是真的,做什么是对的,条件是把我变成一种时钟,每天早上在我起床之前就起床,那么我就应该立刻结束这个提议。

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

必须假定某物是它自身所必需的,并且在它自身之外没有它的必然性的原因,而在别的事物里却是必然性的原因。所有人都称这个为上帝。

Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

把你在新闻中听到的做坏事的人描绘成人类是很危险的。但这也是必要和重要的。

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

秩序是任何人类头脑能够理解的事物的必要条件。