A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

不把一件事想错的长期习惯使它表面上看起来是对的。

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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

无知是一种罪恶,既不可怕也不过分,但也不是最大的罪恶;但聪明才智和渊博的学识,如果伴随而来的是糟糕的训练,则是更大的不幸。

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

我们看到像互惠这样的东西,这是我们道德观的核心。但如果你谈论的是一套关于我们应该做什么的规则,那么,是的,它是一种人类产品。

Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.

在唤起和平工作所需要的爱时,同情比理智更重要,而直觉往往比冷酷的理性更能成为一盏强大得多的探照灯。

The evil inclination occasionally allows us to be tempted and not to fall, so that we may allow ourselves to be tempted even further and fall even deeper.

邪恶的倾向有时允许我们被试探而不堕落,因此我们可能允许自己被试探得更远,堕落得更深。

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

当一个人,无论出于什么原因,有机会过一种不平凡的生活,他没有权利把它留给自己。

You have to keep your mind as wide open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

你必须像睁大眼睛一样睁大你的头脑,因为几乎没有什么是你所看到的。

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.

我不会花很多时间去想后悔,因为我无能为力。

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

一个人只凭他所处时代的智慧而有智慧,却因时代的无知而无知。

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

世界是一个不断变化的世界,自然界是无常的。

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

不要让你的思维停留在你所缺乏的东西上,而要停留在你已经拥有的东西上。

Evil report carries further than any applause.

邪恶的报道比任何掌声都要响亮。

The immorality of morality.

道德中的不道德。