In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

事实上,礼貌是一种人造的好幽默,它掩盖了人们对它的自然缺乏,并以使习惯性成为几乎等同于真正美德的替代品而告终。

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Everyone for the most part is really nice. There have always been jokes, but that's part of being in the spotlight. You can't make everyone completely happy.

在很大程度上,每个人都很好。一直都有笑话,但那是成为焦点的一部分。你不可能让每个人都完全快乐。

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。

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

对美德的忠诚往往源于满足的欲望。