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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

适度好的东西并不如它应该的那么好。适度的性情总是一种美德;但是原则上适度总是一种恶习。

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Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

和解应伴随正义，否则它不会持久。虽然我们都希望和平，但和平不应该是不惜任何代价的和平，而是基于原则和正义的和平。

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God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

上帝是一切小原则中的大原则，没有原则的上帝是不能设想自己的，如果他要这样做，他就必须知道他自己的原则。

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And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

我们已经没有预算了。我们经理看到帐单时吓了一跳。我们花钱大手大脚，但所有的钱都花在产品上了。

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I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

我终于和父亲建立了一种很好的关系，但成长过程很艰难。我们之间有很多冲突，我想这在我的很多作品中都有体现。

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I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

我觉得我一直都很有音乐感，我觉得我能分辨出一首好歌和一首坏歌。如果能听到一些我不熟悉的东西，我会很感激。

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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

我们倾向于喜欢赞美，但却不配。但如果我们想要得到它，我们必须更爱美德。

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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

暴躁的脾气并不完全是一种邪恶。容易相处的人通常没有什么价值。

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A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

适度一点是好的。当然，我的生活并不完全是适度的。

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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

秘密是一切善良的要素;甚至美德，甚至美丽都是神秘的。

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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

人从生命中起来，好像从宴乐中起来，不渴也不醉。

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I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

我通常不发脾气，但如果我生气，那是真的——我很可怕。

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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。

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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

我们的信心来自瞬间;我们的恶习已成习惯。

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I used to love ninja movies. That was my thing.

我以前很喜欢看忍者电影。那是我的专长。

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