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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

  • -- Felix Adler 费利克斯·阿德勒

如果个人美德的根病了，公共廉洁的果实就必然腐败。

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It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.

也许不是爱使世界运转，而是那些相互支持的联盟，通过这些联盟，伙伴们认识到他们在实现共同和私人目标方面相互依赖。

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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

所有重要的事实都是私人的事实。当它们公诸于众时，就不再成为真理;它们成为事实，或者至多成为公众性格的一部分;或者最坏的情况是，流行语。

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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

怀疑对美德的危害不亚于对幸福的危害;已经腐败的人天生多疑，而变得多疑的人很快就会腐败。

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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

无限的权力容易腐蚀拥有它的人的思想;诸位大人，我知道，法律的终点就是暴政的起点。

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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

改变你的观点，坚持你的原则;改变你的叶子，保持你的根完整。

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The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

古巴音乐的根源就在我的脑海里。

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