I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

  • -- Tom T. Hall 汤姆·T·霍尔

我从来没有编过故事。我不做判断,我让听众做判断。当我讲到故事的结尾时,如果它有寓意,我会让听众自己去发现。

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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

人们有责任仅从他们的行为来判断他们。我们的才能使我们无法达到动机、性格和秘密的自我。我们从果实中称树为善,从行为中称人为善。

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

也许没有一种现象比道德上的愤怒包含更多的破坏性情感,道德上的愤怒允许嫉妒,或者在美德的伪装下表现出来。

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

圣经中有一些事情,据说是由上帝明确的命令来完成的,这对人类和我们对道德正义的每一个观念都是令人震惊的。

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

财富确实帮助那些有良好判断力的人。