One person attending that evening described how the perfection of all things in the museum seemed to have an unusual effect on the guests.

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The universal state will never allow for or does not allow for the kind of self-perfection that a small, self-governing polis will have.

万国之城将永不会允许,或说不会允许一种自我完善,那只有在小型，自治的城邦中才行得通。

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Will the best regime be a small closed society ? that through generations has made a supreme sacrifice towards self-perfection? Think of that.

最优的政体会是一个小型封闭的社会吗,经过多代之后，已壮烈地牺牲于自我完善之中,想想这个问题。

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That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called. Retain that dear perfection which he owes without that title.

我们叫做玫瑰的这一种花要是换了个名字,它的香味还是同样的芬芳，罗密欧要是，换了别的名字，他的可爱的完美,也决不会有丝毫改变。

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The form of association that leads to our perfection is necessarily something particularistic.

引领我们,完善己身的关连形式,必然是具有某种排他性。

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A society that leads to our perfection that leads us to complete and perfect our telos must be held together by bonds of trust, of friendship, of camaraderie.

一个引领我们完善的社会,引领我们完成,并完善我们，Telos，的社会,必需是由信任，友爱及同志情谊所共构。

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Because only by participating in political life do we achieve, can we acquire the excellences or the virtues, as he says, that make us what we are, that fulfill our telos or fulfill our perfection.

因为只有透过参与政治生活,我们才能成就自我，才能获得卓越或美德，如他所说，那造就了我们，实现了我们的，Telos，或说完善了我们。

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