O'Neill was an Irish-American with a dark and violent view of human nature.

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Aristotle went on to say that the justice needed to control this dark side of human nature can be found only in a well ordered society of free people who govern themselves, and the only one that he knew was the Polis of the Greeks.

亚里士多德还说过,正义需要用来,控制人性的丑恶面,只有在公民自治的秩序井然的,社会里才能找得到正义,他所知道的这样的社会就是希腊城邦

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And the myth has to do with these sort of pictures I was just describing where we don't actually live on the surface of the Earth of in the light, but rather live in certain hollows in the dark where we're mistaken about the nature of reality.

那个传说与我一直形容的,这个大局有关,我们并不真正生活在地表,生活在阳光里,而是生活在某种暗无天日的黑洞中,一个我们都误解了现实本质的地方

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