A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
罪
Sin
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
罪不能在自然状态下孕育，而只能在公民状态下孕育，在公民状态下，罪是好是坏是由共同同意决定的。
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
没有哪条路比刚刚修好的路更坎坷，也没有哪位罪人比刚刚变成圣人的人更不宽容。
It is true that sin is the cause of all this pain; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
的确，罪是所有这些痛苦的原因;一切都会好的，一切都会好的，一切都会好的。
For too long you've been lied to been told that sin is O.K. but it's talkin' you down, it's talkin' you down. There's really a better way.
太长时间以来，你一直被骗说，罪恶是可以接受的，但它在打击你，它在打击你。真的有更好的方法。
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
也许只有一个主要的罪:不耐烦。因为不耐烦、我们被赶出乐园。因为不耐烦、不能再来。
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
没有野心的人是死的。一个有野心但没有爱的人是死的。在这个世界上，一个对自己的祝福充满雄心和爱心的人是如此的充满活力。
The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.
唯一的罪恶是丑陋，如果我们全心相信这一点，人类精神的所有其他活动都可以自行解决。
So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.
那么，在媒体中谁是无罪的呢?我在媒体界，我是一个大联盟的罪人。除了我的妻子，我不认识任何一个人不是大罪人。
In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament the presence of people on the threshold of my solitude.
在这个群居的时代，我决心要成为一个孤独的人，也许最大的罪恶就是在我即将孤独的时候哀叹人们的存在。
I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
我厌倦了听人把罪恶叫做疾病，把酗酒叫做疾病。据我所知，这是我们每年花费数亿美元用于传播的唯一一种疾病。
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
对生活的真正罪过是滥用和破坏美，甚至破坏自己的美——甚至破坏自己的美，因为美已经被放在我们的关怀之中，我们要对它的幸福负责。
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
因为，如果有一种对生活的罪恶，那与其说是对生活的绝望，不如说是对另一种生活的希望，以及逃避这种生活的不可调和的壮丽。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
你凭什么定别人的罪呢?谁定了罪，谁就成为罪的一部分，谁就拥护罪。
Remorse is the pain of sin.
悔恨是罪恶的痛苦。
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
犯罪的不是那犯罪的，乃是那造成黑暗的。
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
无知不是纯真，而是罪恶。
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
和一些人一起工作就像无所事事一样令人烦恼。
Sin is geographical.
罪恶是地理。