Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

  • -- Robert Southey 骚塞

人不可自以为行恶就可以得善报,反害自己的性命。对他自己的邪恶影响是肯定的。

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What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

认为伪善是罪恶的罪恶是如此合情合理的原因在于,除了这一种罪恶外,其他所有罪恶的背后都隐藏着正直。的确,只有犯罪和罪犯才使我们面对极端邪恶的困惑;但是只有伪君子才真正腐败到极点。

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

死亡是这样一个人,你能清楚地看到他,他的眼睛就在你的心脏的中心:他的眼睛不是通过对光线的反应而看到的,而是通过对来自你生命骨髓中的一种寒意的反应而看到的。

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

梨汁很刺激,因为它们有一种危险的味道。我们所有人都被警告不要吃它们,结果是我们吃得比以往任何时候都多。

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.

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。

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

这就是为什么我们要这么做,稍微维护一下我们的传统。我不反对万圣节,但这不是我们的传统。

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

由于天性善良,一个人无法回答的大多数问题,他压根儿就没想过。

I know people have it worse then me, but i still have troubles of my own.

我知道人们的情况比我更糟,但我仍然有自己的麻烦。

Good comedy doesn't have to be a comedy idea.

好的喜剧不一定是喜剧的想法。

Every man has a wild beast within him.

每个人的内心都有一只野兽。

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

成为一名作家是一件好事。