Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

  • -- David Hume 大卫休姆

在任何情况下,准确对美都是有利的,对细腻的情感则是合理的推理。我们贬低另一个人是徒劳的。

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When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

当一个好人投身于奴隶制的倡导时,他必须至少在一段时间内,在他的新思想、学说和推理模式中,感到自己除了在家里之外,什么地方都是自在的。

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

如果伪造者和罪犯被世俗权力处死,那么就有更多的理由将一个被判异端的人逐出教会,甚至处死。