What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

  • -- Hannah Arendt 阿伦特

认为伪善是罪恶的罪恶是如此合情合理的原因在于,除了这一种罪恶外,其他所有罪恶的背后都隐藏着正直。的确,只有犯罪和罪犯才使我们面对极端邪恶的困惑;但是只有伪君子才真正腐败到极点。

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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both.

妥协不过是为了保留另一种权利或利益而牺牲一种权利或利益,结果往往是两者都丧失。

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

对我来说,保持纯洁的良心远比指导任何伟大的目标重要。

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

罪恶的产生是不需要努力的,自然的,致命的;善良总是某种艺术的产物。

The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.

根据定义,这种可怕的行为需要一个怪物。

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

虚伪是罪恶对美德的崇敬。

The soft whispers of the God in man.

神在人里面轻声细语。