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美德
Virtue
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
美德就像缪斯女神一样，总是成群结队地出现。一个好的原则从来没有在任何一个人的胸中单独找到过。
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
美德是一位天使，但她是一位盲人，她必须要求知识指引她通向目标的道路。
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
对于一个优越的种族，作为人类对超凡圣洁和美德的自命不凡，似乎……荒谬。
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
美德超群的人最有权利造反，但他们是所有人中最不愿意造反的。
Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.
和平不是没有战争;这是一种美德;精神状态;仁慈的性格;信心;和正义。
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
正是美德，美德，创造并保持了友谊。它依赖于兴趣、永恒和忠诚的和谐。
Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.
美德不上镜。做一个好人是什么意思?一无所有，就是这样。一个大大的胖胖的零号，对着大家微笑。
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。
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
美德和罪恶一样危险，因为它们被允许作为权威而不是作为一个人发展自己的品质来统治一个人。
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
不服从是美德中最罕见、最勇敢的一种，很少与忽视、最懒惰和最常见的恶习区分开来。
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
我认为首要的美德是管住舌头;他最接近知道如何保持沉默的神，即使他是对的。
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
因为孤立的动物利己主义是一种倾向于保护和改善物种的美德:在任何一种群体中，它都是一种破坏性的恶习。
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The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.
一个好女人的道路上确实撒满了鲜花;但他们是站在她的身后，而不是前面。
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
也许，美德只不过是心灵上的礼貌。
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
当女人爱我们时，她们会原谅我们的一切，甚至包括我们的罪行;当他们不爱我们的时候，他们会毫无理由地赞扬我们，甚至是我们的美德。
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
顺境发现恶习，逆境发现美德。
Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
忠诚——一种即将被背叛的人所特有的美德。