When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

  • -- Barbara Amiel 艾米尔

当美德自由时,某种程度上罪恶也自由了。

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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

凡人的美或人间的美德,若被过于强烈的光审视,是很危险的。真理的火炬向我们展示了许多我们不能看到的,以及我们不愿看到的。

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

没有所谓的自由。你只会为另一种统治改变一种统治。我们所能做的就是选择我们的主人。

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

美德比邪恶更可怕,因为它的过分行为不受良心的约束。

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

很少人渴望自由;大多数人只希望有一个公正的主人。