Virtue means for him a kind of manly self-assertion, audacity, ruthlessness, a reliance on one's own arms and calculated use of cruelty to achieve one's ends.

美德对他而言,是一种具男子气概的自作主张，胆大，冷酷，自助，且还会算计使用残忍手段,来达致目标。

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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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