If can follow the ideal life, the integrity and freedom of spirit, courage of perseverance, honest and self deception and the line of thinking and to attain to perfection.

如果能追随理想而生活，本着正直自由的精神，勇往直前的毅力，诚实而不自欺的思想而行，则定能臻于至善至美的境地。

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But if you are going to lose these qualities in trying to benefit your city, what benefit, I ask, would you have done her when you attain to the perfection of being lost to shame and honour?

但是如果你为了使你的城市收益而放弃了这些优良品质，你应该想想，当你丢失了你自己那些优良品质的时候，你给你的国家带来的益处还是益处吗？

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To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able attain in the art of conversation.

仔细地倾听和恰到好处地回答，是我们所能达到的谈话艺术的最高境界。 罗什富科。

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Many other taxes do not need to attain perfection to work.

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