Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

如果没有虚荣心作伴,美德将走得很远。

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We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center.

我们已经看到了它是如何进入的,通过卡车,就像在俄克拉荷马城在联邦大厦那样,或者它将通过飞机进入,就像它在世贸中心那样。

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

在信息时代,你不能像封建主义之后那样教授哲学。你执行它。如果亚里士多德今天还活着,他会有一个脱口秀节目。

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

没有什么比在别人身上表现出更大的虚荣心更能抚慰我们的虚荣心了;事实上,它使我们对自己的谦虚感到骄傲。

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

一个人的虚荣心告诉他什么是荣誉,一个人的良心告诉他什么是正义。