Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

  • -- Reinhold Niebuhr 莱茵霍尔德·尼布赫

善良,有了力量,就堕落了;没有力量的纯洁的爱会被摧毁。

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The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

在世界范围内,拥有专断的权力总是不可抗拒地破坏人类的感性、宽宏大量和真理。

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

你可以保持你的美丽和健康,除非你自己毁了它们,或者不鼓励它们和你在一起,因为你不好地利用它们。

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

很少有厌世者,谢天谢地!

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

美德是勇敢的,善良从来无所畏惧。