Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

  • -- Vanna Bonta 范娜·邦塔

当你看到有效的成就或美德受到攻击时,那是因为有人把它们看作是自己不足的一面镜子,而不是通向卓越的鼓舞人心的灯塔。

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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

爱国主义最大的吸引力之一——它满足了我们最坏的愿望。以我们国家的名义,我们可以间接地欺凌和欺骗。欺侮和欺骗,更重要的是,我们觉得自己是非常善良的。

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

我们的文化特别推崇指责行为,认为这是美德和智慧的标志。

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

你有敌人?好。这意味着在你生命中的某个时刻,你曾为某事挺身而出。

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

与饶舌人的舌头相比,火与剑是毁灭的慢速机器。

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

我故意树敌。它们是我生命之菜的调味汁。

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

当你年轻的时候,最愚蠢的想法似乎是最大的成就。

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

恶的作用是把善保持在合理的范围之内。

Gossip is nature's telephone.

流言蜚语是大自然的电话。