Sometimes, many of us felt, that not just consequences but also the intrinsic quality or character of the act matters morally.

有时，我们中许多人认为行为的后果固然重要,但行为的道德本质或是特性，也同样重要。

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This is the quality that Socrates regards as being possessed by every great political leader and statesman, but it is also clearly a quality possessed by every tyrant.

这是苏格拉底认为,每一位伟大政治领袖及政治家所,共同拥有的特质，但也明显是,每一位暴君所拥有的特质。

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