A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
美德
Virtue
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered .
什么是杂草?一种美德尚未被发现的植物。
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
美德被定义为平庸，其中任何一个极端都是罪恶。
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
美德受到坏人的迫害多于受到好人的喜爱。
Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
美德不与安逸为伴。这需要一条崎岖多刺的道路。
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
就我而言，比起浮夸的美德，我更喜欢沉默的恶习。
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
谁不知道什么是不幸，谁就不知道什么是自己，什么是自己的美德。
There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.
曾经有一段时间，耐心不再是一种美德。那是很久以前的事了。
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
这种差别太好了——美德在哪里结束，罪恶在哪里开始。
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
最大的美德是对别人最有用的美德。
It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues, which moves the world.
是慈悲，最仁慈的美德，感动了世界。
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
有些美德只出现在苦难中，而另一些美德只出现在顺境中。
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
夸夸其谈自己美德的人往往是最没有美德的人。
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
顺境发现恶习，逆境发现美德。
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。
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
感恩不仅是最大的美德，也是其他美德之母。
Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.
毅力是一种不可低估的美德。
Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.
真、善、美不过是同一事物的不同面貌。
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。