胡涣 译

~~~~~~~~~~~ 对待他人 ~~~~~~~~~~~

要想在论断别人时变得温和，人只需要加增岁月。在我所见过的众人的所有错误中，没有一件是我不可能犯的。One need only grow old to become gentler in one's judgments. I see no fault committed which I could not have committed myself.

缺乏感恩的心是无能的表现。我从来没有见过真正有能力而不知道感恩的人。Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

发现错误比发现真理容易得多，因为错误显露在表面，很容易看得到，而真理藏在深处，不是每个人都有能力发现。It is much easier to recognize error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be overcome ; but truth lies in the depths, and to search for it is not given to every one.

聪明人认为每件事都可笑。智慧的人正相反。The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

以一个人现在的水平待他，你会让他变得更糟。以他可能达到的水平待他，你就会让他到达那里。Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.

分而治之是个不错的格言。合而召之则更好。Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

~~~~~~~~~~~ 成就自己  ~~~~~~~~~~~ 

在批评面前，人不需要抗议或给自己辩护。他必须把批评置之脑后，坚持做下去。最终批评将会屈服于他。Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

人如果想把文章写得清晰，他先要有清晰的思路。如果要把文章写得高尚，他先要有高尚的灵魂。If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

不要分散你的力量，要经常努力去把它聚焦。真正有才能的人虽然知道别人能做的事他也能做，却不盲目使用他的精力。Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

最可怜的是没有鉴别力的想象力。There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

每一句宝贵的箴言都已经被思考过千百遍了，但我们只有再一次把它们老老实实地反复思考，直到把它们变成我们日常生活的一部分，我们才真正拥有了它们。All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

如何才能了解自己？不是通过想象，而是通过行动。一件事，只要动手做起来，你马上就会发现你到底有多大的能力。How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

有的人从来没犯过错误，因为他们从来都没想过要做什么值得做的事。There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

人最难忍受的是一天天无所作为的日子。A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

能享受时，享受；该忍受时，忍受。Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

你一旦开始相信你自己，你就知道该怎么活着了。As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

~~~~~~~~~~~  滋养自己 ~~~~~~~~~~~ 

没有任何东西比今天更宝贵的了。Nothing is worth more than this day.

人每天至少应该听一支歌，读一首好诗，看一张好画；如果可能的话，说几句入情入理的话。One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

这世界构架得如此神奇，其中的每个成员在此时此地都与别的成员构成奇妙的平衡。So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

在这个世上，除了持久的荣华，别的都能忍受。Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.

~~~~~~~~~~~  警醒自己  ~~~~~~~~~~~ 

没有比好斗的愚昧更可悲的了。There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

我们从不会受骗；我们只是在骗自己。We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

我们必须不断改变、更新我们自己；否则，我们变得僵硬。We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

主意失败时，总会出来很多理由解释。When ideas fail, words come in very handy.