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。

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

这种差别太好了——美德在哪里结束,罪恶在哪里开始。

Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.

无德之美犹如没有香味的玫瑰,徒有其表。