Wealth property he tells us exists for the sake of virtue not virtue for the sake of wealth.

他告诉我们，财富，财产，是为了德行而存在，并非德行为了财富而存在。

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. — Benjamin Franklin.

不要出卖美德换取财富，也不要用自由交换权力。- - - - - - -本杰明·富兰克林。

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Virtue is not confined to the Christian world.

正直的品性并不限于基督教世界。

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Wealth property he tells us exists for the sake of virtue not virtue for the sake of wealth.

他告诉我们，财富，财产,是为了德行而存在,并非德行为了财富而存在。

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It is not virtue or merit that determine the quality of your life.

生命没有什么价值或者德行的高下之分

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And I think it's impossible not to see that when Milton substitutes the virtue charity with the far more circumscribed ideal of chastity.

而我认为当弥尔顿把更加局限的贞操去代替局限的仁爱时,这不可能读不出来,虽然贞洁更加局限。

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The Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) advocated in the context of the debt limit talks is not a virtue if the federal government can collect unlimited, ever-increasing percentages of income and is effectively not constitutionally prohibited from any economic intervention whatsoever, which defines the modern American spending and regulatory state.

FORBES: The Debt Ceiling, Thomas Jefferson and the Semi-Virtue of a Balanced Budget Amendment

One has rights not by virtue of being an American, but by virtue of being human.

FORBES: Anti-Immigration Rhetoric Frighteningly Reveals Education's Failure

Mr Stewart's political problem is that in Westminster, the term "original thinker" is not a compliment, and independent judgement is often considered a vice, not a virtue.

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