伦理与德性
“未经审视的生活是不值得过的。”
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— 柏拉图, Apology
“仅依据那条你同时愿意它成为普遍法则的准则行事。”
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“Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
— 伊曼努尔·康德, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
“人不是被事物本身所困扰，而是被他们对事物的看法所困扰。”
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“Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.”
— 爱比克泰德, A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion
“我们的一切都是我们思想的结果：它以我们的思想为基础，由我们的思想构成。”
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“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.”
— 法句经, The Dhammapada
“仇恨永远不能止息仇恨：仇恨唯有通过爱才能止息，这是一条古老的法则。”
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“Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.”
— 法句经, The Dhammapada
“最好的报复是不要去效仿那个伤害你的人。”
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“The best revenge is not to copy him that wronged you.”
— 马可·奥勒留, The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“互助与相互斗争一样，都是动物生活的自然法则。”
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“Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.”
— 彼得·克鲁泡特金, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
“美德只能在平等者之间繁荣。”
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“Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.”
— 玛丽·沃斯通克拉夫特, A vindication of the rights of men, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edmund B
“哲学家们只是用不同的方式解释世界。然而，关键在于改变世界。”
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“Philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways. What is crucial, however, is to change it.”
— 卡尔·马克思, Theses on Feuerbach
“有两样东西，人们愈是经常、愈是持久地思考它们，对它们怀有的敬畏之心就会愈发充盈心灵：头顶的星空与内心的道德律。”
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“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.”
— 伊曼努尔·康德, Critique of Practical Reason
“做一个不满足的人比做一个满足的猪要好；做一个不满足的苏格拉底比做一个满足的傻瓜要好。”
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“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.”
— 约翰·斯图尔特·密尔, Utilitarianism
“行事如若你的行为准则将通过你的意志成为普遍的自然法则。”
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“Act as if the maxim of thy action were to become by thy will a Universal Law of Nature.”
— 伊曼努尔·康德, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
“无论在生前还是死后，好人不会遭遇任何邪恶。”
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“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”
— 柏拉图, Apology
“无论你的生活多么卑微，去面对它并生活吧；不要回避它，也不要给它起难听的名字。”
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“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.”
— 亨利·戴维·梭罗, Walden, or Life in the Woods
“立刻开始生活吧，把每一天都当作一个单独的生命。”
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“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
— 卢基乌斯·安纽斯·塞涅卡, Moral Letters to Lucilius (Epistulae Morales)
“一个人不仅可以通过行动，还可以通过不作为来对他人造成伤害。”
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“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction.”
— 约翰·斯图尔特·密尔, On Liberty
“放弃自由就是放弃做人，就是放弃人类的权利，甚至放弃其义务。”
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“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.”
— 让-雅克·卢梭, The social contract & discourses
“道德本身并不是教导我们如何让自己幸福，而是教导我们如何变得配得上幸福。”
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“Morality is not properly the doctrine how we should make ourselves happy, but how we should become worthy of happiness.”
— 伊曼努尔·康德, Critique of Practical Reason
“虚假的话语不仅本身是邪恶的，而且会用邪恶感染灵魂。”
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“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
— 柏拉图, Phaedo
“诸恶莫作，众善奉行，自净其意，是诸佛教。”
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“Not to commit any sin, to do good, and to purify one's mind, that is the teaching of (all) the Awakened.”
— 法句经, The Dhammapada
“见义不为，无勇也。”
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“To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.”
— 孔子, The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics)
“以直报怨，以德报德。”
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“Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.”
— 孔子, The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics)
“作恶者是在对自己作恶。行不义者是在对自己行不义，因为他使自己变坏了。”
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“He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.”
— 马可·奥勒留, Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“适应命运赋予你的事物：爱你命中注定要与之生活在一起的人，并以真诚的感情去爱他们。”
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“Adapt yourself to the things which your destiny has given you: love those with whom it is your lot to live, and love them with sincere affection.”
— 马可·奥勒留, The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“幸福不是美德的报酬，而是美德本身。”
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“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.”
— 巴鲁赫·斯宾诺莎, Ethics — Part 5
“在强迫下获得的知识无法在心灵中扎根。”
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“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
— 柏拉图, The Republic
“畏惧死亡的人，永远不会做出符合活人身份的行为。”
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“He who fears death will never act as becomes a living man.”
— 卢基乌斯·安纽斯·塞涅卡, Of Peace of Mind
“人的性格就是他的守护神。”
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“A man's character is his daemon.”
— 赫拉克利特, The fragments of the work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on nature; translated from th
“世人哪，耶和华已指示你何为善。祂向你所要的是什么呢？只要你行公义，好怜悯，存谦卑的心，与你的神同行。”
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“He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”
— 圣经, The Holy Bible (King James Version)