A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
美德
Virtue
Virtue is harmony.
美德是和谐。
Virtue is its own revenge.
美德本身就是一种报复。
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
暴食并不是一种秘密的恶习。
Virtue is the truest nobility.
美德是真正的高贵。
Glory is the shadow of virtue.
光荣是美德的影子。
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
美德有面纱,罪恶有假面具。
The excess of virtue is a vice.
过分的美德是一种恶习。
Silence is the virtue of fools.
沉默是愚人的美德。
Blushing is the color of virtue.
脸红是美德的颜色。
Virtue is not knowing but doing.
美德不是知道而是做。
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
美德是不够的诱惑。
Virtue is not left to stand alone.
美德不是孤立的。
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One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
一个人的美德是他真正拥有的一切,因为它不会因命运的变迁而受到威胁。
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
谦虚不仅是装饰品,而且是美德的守卫。
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
顺境发现恶习,逆境发现美德。
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
谦逊是一切美德的坚实基础。
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。
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
所有不符合公认美德的同情,都是伪装的自私。