It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

  • -- Thornton Wilder 桑顿·怀尔德

在这个似乎执意要把最邪恶的丑陋变成最邪恶的丑陋的世界上,留下美的标志是非常必要的。

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It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

令人好奇的是,从远古时代起,人类似乎就把邪恶与美联系在一起,却带着一种幽灵般的恐惧而退缩,同时又被其催眠般的吸引力所吸引。

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

绝对命令是指一项行动本身是客观必要的,而不涉及任何其他目的。

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

这个世界对你这么好,难道你要带着遗憾离开吗?前方的路比我们身后的路更好走。

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

战争是善,善存恶灭。如果你不粉碎邪恶,那么邪恶就会抓住你。

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

享受世界提供的表演的人是明智的。

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

谦卑是所有其他恩宠的必要面纱。