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道德
Morality
Virtue bears its own fruits.
善有善报。
Morality... comes at a price.
道德……是有代价的。
Conventionality is not morality.
传统不是道德。
Compassion is the basis of morality.
慈悲是道德的基础。
Force always attracts men of low morality.
武力总是吸引道德败坏的人。
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
流言蜚语因道德而乏味。
God looks to clean hands, not to full ones.
上帝希望双手干净,而不是满手。
The pure, upon seeing it pure, call it pure.
纯洁的人,一看见它纯洁,就说它纯洁。
A dog's nose and a maid's knees are always cold.
狗的鼻子和女仆的膝盖总是冰凉的。
He that walketh with the virtuous is one of them.
和有德之人同行的,也是这样。
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
他是一个没有道德的人所能做到的最伟大的人。
A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.
做对的事,心只需要自己的声音。
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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
文明国家的主要商业活动是金钱,而不是道德。
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
道德不能建立在权威之上,即使权威是神圣的。
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
那些忘记善与恶,只想知道事实的人比那些通过扭曲自己欲望的媒介来看待世界的人更有可能获得善。
The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.
所谓新道德,往往是对旧道德的纵容。
Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality.
一个国家之所以贫穷或富有,并不是因为它的财富,而是因为它的道德。
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
自由不能没有道德而建立,道德也不能没有信仰而建立。