Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

  • -- Quintilian 昆提利亚语

虽然野心本身是一种恶习,但它往往是美德的根源。

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What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

我能告诉他们的是,要想成为奥运冠军,现在就开始工作。我告诉他们为什么把时间和精力放在你想要擅长的事情上总是值得的。

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

让他们带我去看一间小屋,那儿没有他们指控法庭的那种罪恶。

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

每次我给一个空缺职位,我就使一百个人不满,一个忘恩负义。

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

恶的作用是把善保持在合理的范围之内。