We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

我们有理由实施良好的道德,因为它们属于全人类;但我们没有理由强迫别人遵守良好的礼仪,因为良好的礼仪总是意味着我们自己的礼仪。

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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

个人利益与社会福利的平衡是文明道德的根本;但是英雄时代的道德是建立在个性的基础上的,而不是其他。

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

在道德上,当真理仅仅是一种情感时,它几乎没有什么价值,只有当它作为事实在世界上实现时,它才会获得它的全部价值。

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.

我们走进车辙如此之深以至于我们无法越过它们。

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

除非我们记得,否则我们无法理解。