只有你为之付出代价，原则才称其为原则。

A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.

youdao

然而必须罹患绝症才让我睁开眼看到那真理，可这是这个陷于无情野心，道德沦陷国家能从我付出代价中汲取教训的。

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

youdao

然而必须罹患绝症才让我睁开眼看到那真理，可这是这个陷于无情野心，道德沦陷国家能从我付出代价中汲取教训的。

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

youdao