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Vice
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
被奉承成美德的人比被威逼出罪恶的人多。
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
恶的作用是把善保持在合理的范围之内。
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
亵渎是一种残忍的恶习。沉溺其中的人不是君子。
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
就我而言,比起浮夸的美德,我更喜欢沉默的恶习。
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
这种差别太好了——美德在哪里结束,罪恶在哪里开始。
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。
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。
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
邪恶之心,好像忿怒,将喜乐变为刑罚。
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
老年本身就有足够的畸形。这决不应该给他们增添罪恶的丑恶。
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
让他们带我去看一间小屋,那儿没有他们指控法庭的那种罪恶。
The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.
你工作的越多,就有越多的人看到你的工作并愿意和你一起工作,反之亦然。
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。
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沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.
罪恶比美德有更多的殉道者;而且经常发生的是,失去的人比得救的人更痛苦。
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。
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
轻率,是智力上最无望的恶习。
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。
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。
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
一部分人以他们的罪恶为傲,追求他们的目标;在做对和做错之间摇摆不定的人要多得多。