What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

阻止我们完全沉溺于一种恶习的原因,往往是我们有好几种恶习。

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In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values.

在过去,有一些人并不富裕,但满足于他们的生活方式,整天欢笑和快乐。但当新富人们出现时,人们看着他们问,‘我为什么不也过上那样的生活,有漂亮的房子、汽车和花园呢?’他们就放弃了自己的价值观。

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

在我看来,共识似乎是抛弃所有信仰、原则、价值观和政策的过程。所以没有人相信,也没有人反对。

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

部分事实或半事实往往比完全的谎言更阴险。

What is love, if not the abandonment of all sanity, all dignity.

爱是什么,如果不是放弃所有理智,所有尊严。

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

犯罪是社会为抛弃品格所付出的代价。

Where there is love, there is often also hate.

哪里有爱,哪里就有恨。