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美德
Virtue
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
适度好的东西并不如它应该的那么好。适度的性情总是一种美德;但是原则上适度总是一种恶习。
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。
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
我该对我的时代、我的国家、我的邻居、我的朋友们做些什么呢?这就是一个有道德的人应该经常问自己的问题。
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
不为赞扬而欢呼，不为责备而悲伤，而是彻底了解自己的美德或能力，这是一个优秀的人的特点。
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
德性知道，不妥协是不可能继续下去的，因此她对自己的调门，可以说是有点尖利，以便在演奏中不可避免地跌进去。
The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
教学的首要任务是通过学生对自己和社会的亲身体验，使他们已经相信的东西得到自觉。
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
节制被称为一种美德，它能限制伟人的野心，并能安慰平庸之辈，因为他们缺乏财富和优点。
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
没有一种紧缩等于平衡的思想，也没有一种幸福等于满足;没有一种疾病比得上贪婪，也没有一种美德比得上仁慈。
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
没有欲望就没有美德，因为一个人想要别人不想要的东西，谁能说他想要的孩子是罪恶还是美德呢?
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
事实上，礼貌是一种人造的好幽默，它掩盖了人们对它的自然缺乏，并以使习惯性成为几乎等同于真正美德的替代品而告终。
If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest.
如果崇高的死亡是美德的最主要部分，那么我们比所有人都更幸运，我们带着自由的皇冠为希腊而奋斗，我们死了，在无尽的荣耀中安息。
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
在婚姻中，你要明智:宁可为人而不顾金钱，宁愿美德而不顾美貌，宁愿思想而不顾身体;那么你就有了妻子、朋友、伴侣和第二个自我。
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
一个人不一定生来就有勇气，但他天生就有潜力。没有勇气，我们就不能持之以恒地实践任何其他美德。我们不能善良、真诚、仁慈、慷慨或诚实。
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
也许，美德只不过是心灵上的礼貌。
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
美德是勇敢的，善良从来无所畏惧。
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
男人中有一种天生的贵族气质。其根据是美德和才能。
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
圣礼的精神美德就像光;它虽经过污秽之地，却未受污染。
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
对美德的忠诚往往源于满足的欲望。