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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

适度好的东西并不如它应该的那么好。适度的性情总是一种美德;但是原则上适度总是一种恶习。

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For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

因为我们必须是这样或那样的东西，一种资产或一种负债，是帮助你飞翔的翅膀上的腱，还是把你束缚在地球上的锁链。

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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

你失去的朋友并没有死，而是走在你前面，在你必须踏着他们踏过的脚步前进的道路上，前进了一两个阶段。

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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

人是理性的动物，当被要求按照理性的要求行事时，他总是发脾气。

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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.

单纯的讲道，什么时候有什么益处呢?把这些东西放回原处。填补心灵的真空。

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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

你要做的第一件事就是接受腐朽的事实，你对此无能为力。

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Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

每个人的一生都是一个从天真，通过诱惑，到美德或罪恶的过程。

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The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

养育孩子的首要原则是选择一位好母亲。

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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

成长最有力的原则在于人的选择。

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Make foes of bowmen if you must, never of penmen.

如果你一定要与弓箭手为敌，千万不要与笔友为敌。

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A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire.

小风易起，大火难熄灭。

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to vice.

快乐是罪恶的最大诱因。

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I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

我想我的恶习会超过我自己。

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An ill-tempered dog has a scarred nose.

脾气暴躁的狗鼻子上有疤。

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Is there no mean but fast or feast?

除了禁食宴乐以外，岂没有别的吗?

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