A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
恶习
Vices
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
为你的局限性辩护，它们肯定是你的。
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
美德这个词对个人利益和罪恶一样有用。
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
我推荐一条规则:永远不要同时做两件坏事。
You can't act like a skunk without someone's getting wind of it.
你不能像个臭鼬一样，不让别人知道。
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
人们更容易被他们的恶习所左右，而不是被他们的美德所左右。
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
没有恶习是好的，但没有诱惑就不好了。
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
美德的名义和伪装对自身利益和真正的罪恶一样有用。
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
我们并不轻视所有有恶习的人，但我们确实鄙视那些没有美德的人。
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
给我看一个从不说闲话的人，我就给你看一个对人不感兴趣的人。
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
人们应该主要从一个人的堕落来判断他。美德是可以伪造的。堕落是真实的。
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
任何形式的上瘾都是不好的，不管上瘾的是酒精、吗啡还是理想主义。
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
自然似乎在每个人的出生时就已经划定了他的美德和罪恶的界限，并决定了这个人能有多好或有多坏。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
虽然所有好的艺术都是为了把人的思想从罪恶中拉出来，并把它引向更美好的事物，但这一功能可以通过艺术得到更充分的发挥，它也提供了非凡的智力乐趣。
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
有一种夸大其词的成分附属于大众的判断:大恶习愈演愈烈，大美德也愈演愈烈;有趣的事件变得更有趣，更柔和的传说变得更柔和。
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
当我们让嫉妒和仇恨的恶习深入我们的本性时，中等收入的人对自己造成的伤害可能是巨大财富所造成的最大伤害。