It is at best but a pettifogging, pickthank business to decompose actions into little personal motives, and explain heroism away.
把行动拆解成琐碎的个人动机,从而消解英雄精神,充其量不过是斤斤计较、卖弄聪明。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · The English Admirals —