Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

秘密是一切善良的要素;甚至美德,甚至美丽都是神秘的。

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Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

欧洲拥有我们尚未拥有的东西,一种神秘而不可抗拒的生命极限的感觉,一句话,一种悲剧的感觉。我们拥有他们迫切需要的东西:对生活的可能性的感知。

Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

对动物的同情与善良的性格密切相关;可以肯定地说,虐待动物的人不可能是好人。

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

美德是一位天使,但她是一位盲人,她必须要求知识指引她通向目标的道路。

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

如果你不得不保守秘密,那是因为你一开始就不应该这么做。

There's something mysterious about ninjas because they're deadly and they're scary.

忍者有一些神秘的地方,因为他们是致命的,他们是可怕的。

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

因此,可以说,秘密是存在与不存在之间的过渡场。

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

太久的牺牲会使人铁石心肠。

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

谦逊是一切美德的坚实基础。