People who claim they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

  • -- Gregory Maguire 格雷戈里·马奎尔

那些自称邪恶的人通常并不比我们其他人更坏……你必须警惕那些声称自己很优秀,或者比我们其他人优秀的人。

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Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.

在我完成另一个层次的山达基审核之前,我有一段非常艰难的时间来纠正错误,我总是不得不按照自己的方式去做——而且不是在一个好的意义上。在听过之后,我能够有自己的想法,并与他们交流,而不必总是正确的。

We must select the proper defense for a particular onslaught with the evil inclination with the same care and presence of mind that a painter exercises in selecting the precise color for a particular effect.

我们必须以画家在为特定效果选择精确的颜色时所表现出的同样的谨慎和沉着,为具有邪恶倾向的特定攻击选择适当的防御。

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

每一个想对人类行善的人最终都以普遍的恃强凌弱告终。

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

没有恶习是好的,但没有诱惑就不好了。