If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

  • -- Van Wyck Brooks 范·威克·布鲁克斯

如果人类本质上是邪恶的,那么谁还会费心去改善这个世界,而不是一开始就把它当作一份糟糕的工作而放弃呢?

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

人活着总免不了挨打,挨打;无论如何,他都得在这个世界上挤来挤去,得罪人受辱。

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

虚假的话不仅本身是邪恶的,而且会使灵魂受到邪恶的感染。

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grew.

自我牺牲是真正的奇迹,所有报道的奇迹都是从自我牺牲中产生的。

There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience.

与邪恶作斗争没有金钱,我的经验恰恰相反。