Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

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。

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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。

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

如果我们被琐碎和邪恶所包围,我们很容易与之和平相处。

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。

Vicious as a tigress can be, she never eats her own cubs.

尽管母老虎很凶,但它从不吃自己的幼崽。