A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
美德
Virtue
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
和平是文明的美德。战争是它的罪行。
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。
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
坚韧是其他美德的守护和支持。
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
也许，美德只不过是心灵上的礼貌。
All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
我们都是远距离修行的专家。
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
美德有它自己的奖赏，却没有票房。
Folded hands may conceal a dagger likewise a foe's tears.
双手合十也能藏起匕首，敌人的眼泪也一样。
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
对美德的考验是抵制一切邪恶的诱惑。
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
幸福不是美德的奖赏，而是美德本身。
Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
美德在于避免丑闻和性病。
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
在我们这个时代，没有什么比美德更没有吸引力了。
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
谦逊是一种美德，也是客人与生俱来的美德。
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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
一个人的出身与父母无关，只要他是一个有价值的人。
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
顺境发现恶习，逆境发现美德。
Virtue is not knowing but doing.
美德不是知道而是做。
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。
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
诗歌的优点是能够在一半的时间里说两倍于散文的话，缺点是，如果你没有把全部的注意力放在诗歌上，那么你似乎在两倍的时间里说了一半的话。
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
勇气不仅仅是一种美德，而是每一种美德在考验时刻的表现形式。