We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

  • -- Edward Dahlberg 爱德华·达尔伯格

我们只能把自己的罪恶写得很好,因为我们很难回忆起一件善行,甚至是善恶动机的结果。

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Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.

有时,他的方法和动机是可疑的,甚至他的道德是可疑的,在他做事情的方式。但我认为他的意图一直是保护他的女儿。

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exists only in life. There is much good and evil allotted to each life.

只有人类认为死亡是邪恶的。但这是自然。邪恶只存在于生活中。每个人的一生都有许多善恶之分。

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

那位老人英年早逝,他的记忆没有任何好处。只有生活得高尚的人才能长寿。

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

你能为别人做的最大的好事,不只是分享你的财富,而是向他展示自己的财富。

The finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else.

能看见的最好的行为,必然总是看不见别的东西的行为。

Virtuous for ten years is still not enough; evil for one day is too much already.

十年的德性还不够;一天的罪恶已经太多了。

We sometimes try to second-guess those who have not even made a first guess.

我们有时试图对那些甚至连第一个猜测都没有做出的人进行事后猜测。

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

只是诗,美和爱。这有多难做到呢?