Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

邪恶就像水,它丰富,便宜,很快就会被污染,但它自己却没有污染。

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What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

认为伪善是罪恶的罪恶是如此合情合理的原因在于,除了这一种罪恶外,其他所有罪恶的背后都隐藏着正直。的确,只有犯罪和罪犯才使我们面对极端邪恶的困惑;但是只有伪君子才真正腐败到极点。

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

我们必须发展和保持宽恕的能力。没有宽恕的能力,就没有爱的能力。我们最坏的一面也有好的一面,最好的一面也有坏的一面。当我们发现这一点时,我们就不那么容易憎恨敌人了。

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

正如人类活动正在扰乱地球的碳循环一样,我们的行为也在改变着水循环。

Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.

许多人认为邪恶是某种东西的存在。我想是缺少了什么。

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

水是生命的物质和基质,是母亲和媒介。没有水就没有生命。

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

正是因为它所承诺的权力感,邪恶才常常吸引弱者。