It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

这是魔鬼有时对善良的人所采取的一种报复,他以他们所压抑的、自以为高人一等的激情的力量把他们迷住了。

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People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves.

人们觉得他们被要求满足他们工作领域的各种规章制度和要求,而议员们并没有把这些限制强加于他们自己。

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

对于一个优越的种族,作为人类对超凡圣洁和美德的自命不凡,似乎……荒谬。

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

最贤惠的人是那些满足于自己的贤惠而不刻意表现出来的人。

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.

整部电影是关于人们相信他们可以把自己还原成原型。

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

做一个牧师,以及所有富有同情心和善良的品质,应该是一回事。

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

我遇到的每个人在某种程度上都是我的上司。