But it paid a very high price for victory.

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But your food shall be the grasses of the field; By the sweat of your brow Shall you get bread to eat" So knowledge or wisdom or perhaps moral freedom seem to come at a very high price.

你也要吃田间的菜蔬;,你必须汗流满面,才得以糊口“,所以，人类为得到智慧，道德自由,付出了极大的代价。

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And we pay a very high price for this inability, for this refusal to accept the fact that it is part of human nature that is constrained, that is there no matter what.

我们为这种无能付出高昂代价，为拒绝接受,本性受约束，生而有之的事实，付出高昂代价。

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