优文网

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。

标签

Vice Moderation Good Virtue Temper Thing Principle

相关名言

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

这个国家孕育于自由之中，奉行的原则包括:诚实的人可以诚实地提出异议;如果他们都能说出自己的想法，大多数人就能分清是非。

阅读 +

The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.

重要的是，仅仅因为我做得好并不意味着如果他们感染了艾滋病毒他们也会做得好。自从我宣布以来，已经有很多人死了。这种病哪儿也去不了。

阅读 +

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.

很长一段时间，我同时想到了两件事，一是我实际上是一个优秀的剧作家，二是下次我写剧本的时候，我就会被人认为是一个一无是处的人。

阅读 +

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

依赖带来顺从和腐败，扼杀美德的萌芽，为野心的设计准备合适的工具。

阅读 +

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

富足的人之所以适度，是因为他们的好运气使他们心平气和、沉着冷静。

阅读 +

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

当一个人说，重要的不是钱，而是事情的原则，那就是钱。

阅读 +

Be carefree let all your worries drift away focus on all the exciting things in life.

无忧无虑，让你所有的烦恼都烟消云散，把注意力集中在生活中所有令人兴奋的事情上。

阅读 +

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

谁不知道什么是不幸，谁就不知道什么是自己，什么是自己的美德。

阅读 +

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

朋友和良好的礼貌会把你带到金钱无法到达的地方。

阅读 +

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

如果适度是一种错误，那么漠不关心就是一种犯罪。

阅读 +

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

轻率，是智力上最无望的恶习。

阅读 +

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

在罪恶中我们是美德，反之亦然。

阅读 +

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

急性子很快就会使你成为傻瓜。

阅读 +

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

我有脾气，但我不会骂我。

阅读 +

热门话题