Their professions to justice are just that, they are professions or pretensions expressing their vanity and their ambition.

他们在正义上的专业训练，只是他们的专业,或说自命表达其自负与野心。

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It's the equivalent of fancy patricians in Florence having paintings of themselves.

这和佛罗伦萨那些自负的贵族们要求,给自己画像如出一辙

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Each of us contains these two warring, you might say, elements within us, both self-assertion and fear of the consequence of self-assertion. The question is for Hobbes, ? how do we tame these passions?

我们每个人都有这两种，矛盾的元素，即对自负之结果的自负和恐惧,对霍布斯来说，这个问题就是，我们怎样控制情绪？

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