There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

  • -- Benjamin Haydon 本杰明海顿

人的本性中肯定有一种内在的倾向,那就是从所有的恶中榨取所有的善。

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The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

那件刻着你名字的小玩意。是由一个特殊的事实引起的;但是,让人性蒙羞的是,这个话题的普遍性足以引起每一颗心的兴趣,而不是完全无法理解。

People who claim they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

那些自称邪恶的人通常并不比我们其他人更坏……你必须警惕那些声称自己很优秀,或者比我们其他人优秀的人。

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

多疑的人相信的比怀疑的多。它相信一种可怕的、无法根除的邪恶潜伏在每个人身上。

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

没有人因为邪恶而选择邪恶;他只把它当作幸福,他所追求的美好。

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

爱情是一位陌生的主人,人性更是陌生。

A good garden may have some weeds.

好花园可能有些杂草。