The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

  • -- Thomas Robert Malthus 马尔萨斯

对美德的考验是抵制一切邪恶的诱惑。

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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

我从不抗拒诱惑,因为我发现对我有害的东西不会诱惑我。

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

每个人都必须在美德上力争卓越;那个人活得比第一次好两次。

Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man's fingers.

诱惑扭曲正直,就像拇指螺丝扭曲一个人的手指一样。

Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

被试探是一回事,跌倒又是另一回事。

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

我们获得了抵制诱惑的力量。

The excess of virtue is a vice.

过分的美德是一种恶习。