In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

事实上,礼貌是一种人造的好幽默,它掩盖了人们对它的自然缺乏,并以使习惯性成为几乎等同于真正美德的替代品而告终。

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A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.

一场美好的战争是这样的战争,每个英雄都是英雄,每个人或多或少都是美好战争中的英雄。这场战争一点也不美好。

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

对敌人友善很容易,即使是对一个缺乏个性的敌人。

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

对美德的考验是抵制一切邪恶的诱惑。

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

虚伪是罪恶对美德的崇敬。