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良性
Virtuous
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
只有有道德的人才能获得自由。随着国家变得腐败和邪恶，他们更需要主人。
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
那位老人英年早逝，他的记忆没有任何好处。只有生活得高尚的人才能长寿。
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
我们只能把自己的罪恶写得很好，因为我们很难回忆起一件善行，甚至是善恶动机的结果。
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
这是魔鬼有时对善良的人所采取的一种报复，他以他们所压抑的、自以为高人一等的激情的力量把他们迷住了。
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
一个人如果在私生活中没有高尚的情操，那么他就会，或者很快就会，对他的国家失去所有的尊重。很少有一个人因为背叛祖国而感到内疚，他以前从未在私人关系中丧失过道德义务的感觉。
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
有美德的人不命令，也不服从。
That bench is well adorned that is filled with virtuous women.
满坐贤惠妇女的长凳，甚是华丽。
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
做一个牧师，以及所有富有同情心和善良的品质，应该是一回事。
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
所有的艺术都是一种挣扎，以一种特殊的方式，成为有道德的人。
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
圣人与贤惠的少女和开明的君主属于同一种过时的套路。
Virtuous for ten years is still not enough; evil for one day is too much already.
十年的德性还不够;一天的罪恶已经太多了。