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Vice
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
暴食并不是一种秘密的恶习。
My only aversion to vice, is the price.
我对罪恶唯一的厌恶就是代价。
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
贪婪是暮年的恶习。
I think my vice would be outdoing myself.
我想我的恶习会超过我自己。
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to vice.
快乐是罪恶的最大诱因。
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
即使没有老师,恶习也可以习得。
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
我们的信心来自瞬间;我们的恶习已成习惯。
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。
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
轻率,是智力上最无望的恶习。
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
无知是一切痛苦和罪恶的根源。
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
孤独者最大的恶习是对食物的崇拜。
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
别人的耻辱常使温柔的心远离罪恶。
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I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.
我非常喜欢食物。如果我有什么恶习,那就是吃。如果有人告诉我,我的余生只能吃一种食物,我可以永远忍受香肠和土豆泥。
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
虽然野心本身是一种恶习,但它往往也是美德之母。
It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.
很明显,做一个好人比做一个坏人要难得多。看起来,这个世界从根本上来说是一个邪恶的地方。所以为了做一个好人,你必须与诱惑和罪恶作斗争。
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
虽然野心本身是一种恶习,但它往往是美德的根源。
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
唯一不能原谅的恶习是虚伪。伪君子悔改本身就是伪善。