The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

  • -- William Hazlitt 威廉·哈兹里特

唯一不能原谅的恶习是虚伪。伪君子悔改本身就是伪善。

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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

与事实的粗暴接触很快就把我的幻想和梦想赶跑了,取而代之的是社会的恐怖、腐败、邪恶和虚伪。

When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

当我们远离全球变暖,京都议定书,当我们不负责任地在向非洲艾滋病迈进的道路上行动迟缓,当我们不推进和实践我们自己的言论和标准时,我们发出了一个可怕的信息,那就是表里不一和伪善。

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

因为厚颜无耻是一种恶习,所以并不意味着谦虚是一种美德;它建立在羞耻的基础上,是我们天性中的一种激情,根据动机所产生的行为,它可以是好是坏。

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

无知是一切痛苦和罪恶的根源。

Sinning is the best part of repentance.

犯罪是悔过最好的部分。

Bad men are full of repentance.

坏人都很后悔。