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天生的能力好像天然生成的植物，必须通过学习加以修整；然而学习本身如若不由实践去约束，必然方向纷杂而漫无目的。----培根： 《随笔.论学习》

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that

need pruning by study; and studies

themselves do give forth directions too much

at large, except they be bounded in by

experience. Bacon, Of Studies, Essays

对一件事情我们必须先接受它，才能改变它。谴责并不能把我们从困扰中解脱出来，只会使之加剧。

---荣格：《分析心理学论文集》

We cannot change anything unless we accept

it. Condemnation does not liberate it, it

oppresses.

Jung, Psychological Reflections

拒人千里源于分裂的意识，宽容大度源于统一和谐意识。

---泰戈尔：《致友人的信》

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the

consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness

of unity.

Tagore, Letters to a Friend

无所事事亦难逃一死，不如奋斗终生。

---荷马： 《伊利亚特》

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one

who has done much.

Homer, Iliad

不要寻求令人称羡的财富，应当追求这样的境界：对财富正当地获取，清醒地使用，愉快地施舍并能知足地放弃。

---培根： 《随笔 论财富》

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou

mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute

cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

Bacon, Of Riches, Essays

思想倘若不引发行动则意义不大，而行动倘若不是源于思想则毫无意义。

----乔治 伯尔那诺：

《乔治 伯尔那诺之最后论文集》

A thought which does not result in an action is

nothing much, and an action which does not

proceed from a thought is nothing at all. Georges Bernanos,

The Last Essarys of Georges Bernanos

下定决心果断行动，并承担后果。在这世上犹豫不决成就不了任何事。

托.亨.赫胥黎：《警句与内省》

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take

the consequences. No good is ever done in this

world by hesitation.

Thomas Henry Huxley, Aphorisms and

Reflections

适者生,不适者灭,这是自然界一如既往、永不变更的规律。

赫.乔.威尔斯 :《黔驴技穷》

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's

inexorable imperative.

, Mind at the End of Its Tether

我们总是喜欢那些赞赏我们的人，但不一定喜欢我们赞赏的人。

拉罗什福科：《道德警句集》

Always we like those who admire us, but we do

not always like those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Maxims 烈火炼真金，逆境出强人。

塞内加：《论恩泽》

Fire is the test of gold, adversity, of strong

men.

Seneca, On Providence

替别人考虑人人都很明智，轮到自己却是当局者迷。

爱默生：《日记》

We are all wise for other people, none for

himself.

Emerson, journals

提出忠告应该旨在帮助而非取悦朋友。

梭伦

In giving advice, seek to help, not to please,

your friend.

Solon

忠告就像雪花，飘落得越轻柔，就越能持久，也越能深深地潜入人心。

塞缪尔.泰勒.柯勒律治

Advice is like snow, the softer it falls, the

longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks

into, the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 眼睛是画家,耳朵是歌手。

爱默生:《日记》

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

Emerson, Journals

人性就是如此，它最乐意将爱给予那些似乎最不强求爱的人。

伯特兰.罗素：《征服幸福》

Human nature is so constructed that it gives

affection most readily to those who seem least

to demand it.

Bertrand Russell,

The conquest of Happiness

称赞很好，恭维很好，然而友爱---那是任何人无论凭品格还是成就所能赢得的最终、最珍贵的回报。

马克.吐温：《演说辞》

Praise is well, compliment is well, but

affection--that is the last and final and most

precious reward that any man can win,

whether by character or achievement.

Mark Twain. Speeches 人到中年,心灵应像玫瑰一样绽放,而不应如卷心菜一般蜷缩。

约翰.安德鲁.霍尔姆斯:

《少量的智慧》

At middle age the soul should be opening up

like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.

John Andrew Holmes,

Wisdom in Small Doses

可以为财富的奴仆画一幅像：他一脚踩着横财，另一脚踏进坟墓。

詹姆斯.瑟伯：《当代寓言.老鼠与金钱》

This is the posture of fortune's slave: one foot

in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

勃然大怒并不难--每个人都可以--难的是发泄怒气时找准对象，把握分寸和时机，明确目的并采取恰当的方式。

亚里士多德：《伦理学》

It is easy to fly into a passion --anybody can do

that--but to be angry with the right person to

the right extent and at the right time and with

the right object and in the right way--that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

生气是代人受过。亚历山大.蒲柏：《杂感录》

To be angry is to revenge the fault of others

upon ourselves.

Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects

痛可忍,而痒不可忍;苦可耐,而酸不可耐。

张潮：引自林语堂《生活的艺术》

It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand

an itch; it is easy to bear the bitter taste, but

difficult to bear a sour taste.

Zhang Chao, quoted from The Importance of

Living, by Lin Yu Tang

对所有人退让你很快将无处可退。

伊索《寓言-丈夫和他的两个妻子》

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to

yield.

Aesop, The Man and His Two Wives, Fables

从尘世得以解脱，莫过于依赖艺术；与世界建立亲密的联系，也莫过于通过艺术这种形式。

歌德：《亲合力》 There is no better deliverance from the world

than through art; and a man can form no surer

bond with it than through art.

Goethe, Elective Affinities

艺术是大自然的情人，因而既是她的奴隶又是她的主人。

泰戈尔：《飞鸟集》

The artist is the lover of nature, therefore he is

her slave and her master.

Tagore, Stray Birds

艺术家的杰出之处在于他具有一种力量，能用痛苦这一每人都具备的材料来造型。

莱昂内尔.特里林：《丰富的想象.艺术与神经质》

What marks the artist is his power to shape

the material of pain we all have.

Lionel Trilling, Art and Neurosis, The Liberal

Imagination

人们常常为模拟之物喝彩，对真实的事物却报以不屑的嘘声。

伊索：《寓言.小丑与乡下人》 Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the

real thing.

Aesop,The Buffoon and the Countryman,Fable

美总是建立在需要的基础上。

爱默生：《随笔 第二集 诗人》

The beautiful rests on the foundations of

necessary.

Emerson, The Poet, Essays, Second Series

行为是一面镜子，各人在其中纷纷展示自己的影象。

歌德：《亲合力》

Behavior is a mirror in which every one

displays his own image.

Goethe, Elective Affinities

胆大无畏者可以承担一切使命，但并不意味着能完成一切使命。

拿破仑一世：《格言集》

With audacity one can undertake anything, but

not do everything.

Napol on I, Maxims

无所畏惧倍添勇气，优柔寡断徒增胆怯。

普布里利亚斯 西拉斯：《道德警句集》 Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Publiclius Syrus, Moral Sayings

书里安歇着整个历史的灵魂。

托马斯 卡莱尔：

《英雄 英雄崇拜和历史上的英雄事迹》

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Thomas Carlyle,

On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in

History

世界的奥秘在于人与时势的关系。英雄造时势，时势造英雄。

爱默生：《处世之道 论命运》

The secret of the world is the tie between

person and event. Person makes event and

event person.

Emerson, Fate, The conduct of life

在人的一生中/同样的时光永不复回。

托 史 艾略特《大教学谋杀案》

In the life of one man, never/The same time

returns.

, Murder in the Cathedral 你不能两次踏入同一条河流，因为其他水流会不断注入。

赫拉克利特：《著作残篇》

You can't step twice into the same river, for

other waters are continually flowing in.

Heraclitus, Fragments

变化是生活的法则。只盯着过去或眼前的人注定失去未来。

约翰 弗 肯尼迪

Change is the law of life. And those who look

only to the past or the present are certain to

miss the future.

John y,

一切悲剧以死亡结束，一切喜剧以婚嫁告终。

拜仑：《唐璜》

All tragedies are finished by a death, All

comedies are ended by a marriage.

Byron, Don Juan

关注是无声的、绵绵不断的赞赏。

斯维琴夫人 Attention is a tacit and continual compliment.

Madame Swetchine,

人人知道如何抱怨，但极少有人能得体地赞美。

威兼 费特：《生活的职责》

Everybody knows how to utter a complaint,

but few can express a graceful compliment.

William Feather, The business of Life

每个人都是一轮月亮，都有黑暗的、从不示人的一面。

马克 吐温：《笔记》

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which

he never shows to anybody.

Mark Twain, Note Books

思想越狭隘，自负越膨胀。

伊索：《寓言 蠓虫与牛》

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Aesop. The Gnat and the Bull. Fable

自负令人膨胀，却不能使他挺起腰杆。

约翰 罗斯金 Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him

up.

John Ruskin

胜利之神据说是独臂的，和平却将胜利赋予双方。

爱默生：《日记》

The God of Victory is said to be one-handed,

but peace gives victory to both sides.

Emerson, Journals

教育的根虽苦，果却甜。

亚里士多德

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit

is sweet.

Aristotle

少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。

欧里庇德斯：《弗里克索斯》

Who neglects learning in his youth, loses the

past and is dead for the future.

Euripides, Phrixus

我拥有的知识每个人都可能得到，但我的心灵只属于我自己。

歌德：《少年维特之烦恼》

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can

acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Goethe, The sorrows of Young Werther

你不仅应根据一个人所交的朋友而且应根据他所树的敌人对他进行判断。

约瑟夫.康拉德：〈吉姆老爷〉

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as

by his friends.

Joseph Conard, Lord Jim

留意你的敌人，他们是首先发现你的错误的人。

安提西尼

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the

first to discover your mistakes.

Antisthenes

追思过去，憧憬未来，生命是一种情感的享受。

阿尔弗雷德.诺思.怀特海： 〈思维模式〉 Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from

the past and aimed at the future.

Alfred North Whitehead, Models of Thought

任何人都可能犯错误，但只有傻瓜才坚持错误。

西塞罗

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot

persists in his error.

Cicero

热爱真理，宽恕错误。

伏加泰

Love truth, but pardon error.

Voltaire

永无不必解释。你的朋友不需要它，而你的敌人无论如何也不会相信它。

艾尔伯特.哈伯德：《笔记》

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and

your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book

幸福的家庭几近一致；不幸的家庭各有不幸。

列夫.托尔斯泰：《安娜.卡列尼娜》

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy

family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

与友分享欢乐者,无不欢乐倍增;与友分担哀伤者,无不哀伤减半.

培根:《随笔》

There is no man that imparteth his joys to his

friends, but that he joyeth the more; and no

man that imparteth is griefs to his friends, but

he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Essays

朋友寥寥无几的人成长不全，他的本性中有不少被封闭和从未显露的层面；他自己无法开启，甚至不会发现，唯有友人才能激励他，启示他。

兰道夫.伯恩：《青春与生命》

A man with few friends is only half-developed;

there are whole sides of his nature which are

locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even

discover them. Friends alone can stimulate

him and open him.

Randolph Bourne, Youth and Life

觅一知已，需闭一只眼；守一知已，需闭两只眼。

诺曼.道格拉斯：《年鉴》

To find a friend one must close one eye. To

keep him, Two.

Norman Douglas, An Almanac

面目不清的朋友比明刀明枪的敌人更糟。

伊索：《寓言》

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain

enemy.

Aesop, Fables

结交朋友只在一念之间，友谊却是慢慢成熟的果实。

亚里士多德：《伦理学》

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but

friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotld, Nicomachean Ethics

真正的善行，是心平气和地去希冀，从容不迫地去寻找，平静地去拥有，无悔地延迟。

考文垂.帕特摩尔

True good are peacefully desired, sought

without eagerness, possessed without elation,

and postponed without regret.

Coventry Patmore

善不是在真空而是在待人中体现，它需要用爱来滋润。

索尔.贝娄

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in

the company of other men, attended by love.

Saul Bellow

有才能的人，做自己喜爱的事；有天赋的人，做自己能做的事。

让.安格尔

With talent, you do what you like. With genius,

you do what you can.

Jean Ingres

记住：未来不属于我们，也并非完全不属于我们。所以我们不应指望它一定到来，但也不应放弃希望，认定它永远不会来临。

伊壁鸠鲁

Remember that the future is neither ours nor

wholly not ours. So that we may neither count

on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as

certain not to be.

Epicurus

保证未来价值的最有效方法就是积极勇敢地直面现在。

罗洛.梅

The most effective way to ensure the value of

the future is to confront the present

courageously and constructively.

Rollo May

要恋爱而又要理智是不可能的。

培根：《随笔》 It is impossible to love and be wise.

Bacon. Essays

爱把小时算作日，把日子当作年；/每次短暂的别离恍若隔世变迁。

约翰 德莱顿 Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; /And every little absence is an

age.

John Dryden

不成熟的爱说：“我爱你因我需要你。”成熟的爱说：“我需要你因我爱你”。

埃里希 弗里姆：《爱的艺术》 Immature love says:"I

love you because I need you." Mature love

says:"I need you because I love you."

Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

人生至高的幸福，便是感到自己有人爱。

维克多 雨果：《悲惨世界》 The supreme happiness

of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

不要说爱被浪费，爱将永不浪费。/即使不能充实另一颗心灵，它涓涓的细流也会像甘霖回落清泉，带来新鲜活力；/喷涌流泻的清泉终将回归大地。

朗费罗 ：《伊凡吉林》 Take not of wasted affection,

affection never was wasted;/If it enrich not

the heart of another, its waters;

returning/Back to their springs, like the rain,

shall fill them full of refreshment; /That which

the foutain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Longfellow ,Evangeline

恶意常披着真理外衣 。

威廉 黑兹里特：《直言者》 Malice often takes the

garb of truth.

William Hazlitt, The Plain Speaker

有千万条道路从来没有人踏过，有千百个强身之道和生命的秘密岛屿从来没有被发现，人类和人类社会仍然无穷无尽，有待发掘。 尼采：《查拉图斯特拉如是说》 A thousand

paths are there which have never yet been

trodden; a thousand salubri ties and hidden

islands of life. Unexhausted and undiscovered

is still man and man's world.

Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

人是一件多么了不起的杰作！多么高贵的理性！多么无穷的才智！多么优雅的仪表！多么敏捷的举止！行动多么象天使！睿智多么像天神！美的化身！万物之灵！

莎士比亚：《哈姆雷特》 What a piece of work is man!

How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties!

In form and moving how express and

admirable! In action how like an angel! In

apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals!

Shakespeare, Hamlet

婚前睁大双眼，婚后半睁半闭。

本杰明.富兰克林 Keep your eyes wide open

before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

婚姻中三分是爱,七分是宽恕。

兰顿 米切尔： 《纽约观念》 Marriage is three parts

love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

Langdon Mitchell, The New York Idea

男子的美在于刚中有柔，女子的美在于柔中有刚。

苏姗.桑塔格 What is most beautiful in virile men

is something feminine; what is beautiful in

feminine women is something masculine.

Susan Sontag

与其铭记在心徒伤悲,莫若忘却往事笑盈盈。

克里斯蒂娜.罗塞蒂 Better by far you should forget

and smile/Than that you should remember

and be sad.

Christina Rossetti

宁可平平安安地吃粗茶淡饭,而不愿胆颤心惊地吃大鱼大肉.

伊索《寓言》 Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

Aesop, Fables

幸福不在于事件,而是取决于心灵的潮起潮落.

艾丽丝.梅内尔

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends

upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

幸福不在于幸福本身,而在于达到幸福的历程.

陀斯妥耶夫斯基

Happiness doesn't lie in happiness, but in the

achievement of it.

Dostoevsky

你把幸福捧在手里,看似微不足道,一旦放手,你便立刻感觉到它的重要与珍贵。

高尔基

Happiness always looks small while you hold it

in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at

once how big and precious it is.

Gorky 不是财富与辉煌，而是宁静与工作带来幸福。

托马斯.杰弗逊

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but

tranquility and occupation, which give

happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

当一扇幸福之门关闭，另一扇将会打开，但是我们常常死死盯着那扇关闭的门以至于看不到另一扇为我们而开的门。

海伦.凯勒：《我们失去亲人》

When one door of happiness closes, another

opens, but often we look so long at the closed

door that we do not see the one which as been

opened for us.

Helen Keller, We Bereaved

凡事要三思而后行，跑得太快的人会滑倒。

莎士比亚

Wisely, and slow, They stumble that run fast.

Shakespeare

普通人被卷入行动，英雄则自己行动。这是巨大的差异。]

亨利.米勒

The ordinary man is involved in action, the

hero acts. An immense difference.

Henry Miller

身心健康是这个世界上对于幸福的简短而充分的描述。

约翰.洛克

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but

full description of a happy state in this world.

John Locke

必须牢牢控制感情，因为一撒手，理智飞快失去！

尼采

One should hold fast one's heart; for when one

letteth it go, quickly doth one's head run away!

Nidtzcshe

真诚地帮助他人就是在帮助自己，此乃生活的一种完美补偿。

查尔斯.达德利.华纳

It is one of the beartiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help

another without helping himself.

Chrles Dudley Warner

重要的不是思想，而是思想的深度。

伊兹拉.庞德

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but

the depth at which he holds it.

Ezra Pound

一个新的想法是非常脆弱的，它可能被一声嗤笑或一个哈欠扼杀，可能被一句嘲讽刺中身亡，或者因某位权威人士皱一下眉便郁郁而终。

查尔斯.布劳尔

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a

sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by

a quip and worried to death by a frown on the

right man's brow.

Charles Brower

思想家会离开人世，但它的思想将永不消亡，人不能永生，思想却可以永存。 沃尔特.里普曼

The thinker dies; but his thoughts are beyond

the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but

ideas are immortal.

Walter Lippmann

只有与现实联姻，我们的理想才能结果。倘若脱离现实，理想将永无生机。

伯特兰.罗素

It is only in marriage with the world that our

ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they

remain barren.

Bertrand Russell

思想扣动板机，然而是直觉装上子弹。

马奎斯

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the

gun.

Marquis

理智是人类凭借思想领司世界的能力，才智则相反，是人类借助思想把持世界的能力。 埃里希.弗罗姆

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world

by thought, in contradiction intelligence,

which is man's ability to manipulate the world

with the help of thought.

Erich Fromm

别人对你工作的干扰与你自己无数次地打断自己相比，微不足道。

布伦顿.弗兰西斯

Other people's interruptions of your work are

relatively insignificant compared with the

countless times you interrupt yourself.

Brendan Francis

智者乐水，仁者乐山。智者动，仁者静。智者乐，仁者寿。

孔子：《论语》

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous

find pleasure in hills. The wise are active, the

virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful, the

virtuous are long-love.

Confucius, Analects 做一切力所能及的事，这是人；做一切想做的事，这是神。

拿破仑一世

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man;

to do all that one would like to do, is to be a

god.

Napoleon I

生命因世界对它的要求而得到财富，因爱心对它的要求而有了价值。

泰戈尔：《飞鸟集》

Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world,

and its worth by claims of love.

Tagore, Stray Birds