To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

  • -- Plato 柏拉图

恶与善孰重孰轻不是人类的本性;当一个人被迫从两种罪恶中选择一种时,没有人会在他可能拥有的更少的时候选择更大的。

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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

希腊人拥有一种人性的知识,如果不经历一种新野蛮主义的强化冬眠,我们似乎很难达到这种知识。

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

人性比任何现存文化的人为发明都要深刻和广泛。