A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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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I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.
我认为更大的责任,在道德方面,是领导的开始。
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
虚荣的科学。物理科学的知识不会因为我在苦难时期对道德的无知而安慰我,但道德知识将永远因为我对物理科学的无知而安慰我。
I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.
我不是一个好父亲,他们也不再是孩子了;老大五十多岁了。我与他们母亲的关系破裂了,因为律法的缘故,他们与母亲同去,在生活中充满了母亲的道德,他们就不再是我的子民了。
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
把一个既不能定义也不能设想的概念作为公共道德的标准,就等于打开了每一种暴政的大门。
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
但是道德和权力的关系是非常微妙的。因为最终没有道德的权力不再是权力。
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
艺术,就像道德一样,就是在某处画一条线。