智慧书

译者序:历经时光淘洗而不衰的处世经典/1
1.万物已近极致/3
Everything is at its acme
2.品性与智慧/3
Character and intellect
3.做事时常留有悬念/3
Keep matters for a time in suspense
4.有识亦应有胆/5
Knowledge and courage
5.让别人依赖你/5
Create a feeling of dependence
6.至善至美的境界/7
A man at his highest point
7.不要比上司更耀眼/9
Avoid victories over superiors
8.不被激情左右/11
To be without passions
9.避免土生土长的缺陷/11
Avoid the faults of your nation
10.财富与名望/13
　　Fortune and fame
11.择师而交/13
　　Cultivate those who can teach you
12.自然和人工:原料与加工/15
　　Nature and art
13.有时三思而行,有时立下决断/15
　　Act sometimes on second thoughts,
　　sometimes on first impulse
14.事物本身及做事的方法/19
　　The thing itself and the way it is done
15.广纳贤人/19
　　Keep ministering spirits
16.学识和善心/21
　　Knowledge and good intentions
17.变换你的行为模式/21
　　Vary the mode of action
18.能力和努力/23
　　Application and ability
19.事前不要让人期望过高/25
　　Arouse no exaggerated expectations on entering
20.生逢其时的人/27
　　A man of the age
21.幸运之道/27
　　The art of being lucky
22.学以致用/29
　　A man of knowledge to the point
23.没有瑕疵/29
　　Be spotless
24.控制自己的幻想/31
　　Keep the imagination under control
25.善于领会弦外之音/31
　　Know how to take a hint
26.揪出他人的把柄/33
　　Find out each man’s thumbscrew
27.求精深重于求广博/33
　　Prize intensity more than extent
28.超凡脱俗/35
　　Common in nothing
29.刚直的人/35
　　A man of rectitude
30.不做毁誉之事/37
　　Have naught to do with occupations of ill-repute
31.学会趋利避害/39
　　Select the lucky and avoid the unlucky
32.因善行而闻名/39
　　Have the reputation of being gracious
33.知道如何逃避/41
　　Know how to withdraw
34.了解自己的*强项/41
　　Know your strongest point
35.遇事斟酌,遇要事则更要斟酌/43
　　Think over things, most over the most important
36.进退之际,了解时运/45
　　In acting or refraining, weigh your luck
37.准备一些讥诮话,并善加利用/45
　　Keep a store of sarcasms, and know how to use them
38.急流勇退/47
　　Leave your luck while winning
39.了解事物成熟的时机,并善加利用/49
　　Recognize when things are ripe, and then enjoy them
40.获得人们的好感/49
　　Gain the goodwill of people
41.切勿言过其实/51
　　Never exaggerate
42.天生为王/53
　　Born to wommand
43.心随精英,口随大众/53
　　Think with the few and speak with the many
44.英雄相惜/55
　　Sympathy with great minds
45.狡猾可以运用,但不能滥用/57
　　Use, but do not abuse, cunning
46.控制你的反感情绪/57
　　Master your antipathies
47.避免“为荣誉而决斗”/59
　　Avoid “affairs of honour”
48.做一个有深度的人至关重要/59
　　So much depends on being a person of depth
49.明察善断/61
　　Observation and judgment
50.不失自尊/61
　　Never lose self-respect
51.选择有道/63
　　Know how to choose well
52.从不慌乱/63
　　Never be put out
53.聪明且勤奋/65
　　Be diligent and intelligent
54.懂得展示你的勇气/65
　　Know how to show your teeth
55.善于等待/67
　　Wait
56.随机应变/67
　　Have presence of mind
57.慢且稳/69
　　Be slow and Sure
58.恰当展现自己/69
　　Adapt yourself to your company
59.要有完美的收场/71
　　Finish off well
60.判断准确/71
　　A sound judgment
61.卓越之处求卓越/73
　　To excel in what is excellent
62.善其事必先利其器/73
　　Use good instruments
63.抢先为上/75
　　To be the first of the kind is an excellence
64.远离烦恼/77
　　Avoid worry
65.培养高雅的品味/77
　　Elevated taste
66.使结局完美/79
　　See that things end well
67.选择能够获得殊荣的行业/81
　　Choose an occupation that wins distinction
68.点拨其心智,胜于助其回忆/81
　　It is better to help with intelligence than with memory
69.不要冲动行事/83
　　Do not give way to every common impulse
70.学会拒绝/85
　　Know how to refuse
71.不要左右摇摆/87
　　Do not vacillate
72.要当机立断/87
　　Be resolute
73.安然退避/89
　　 Utilize slips
74.与人为善/89
　　Do not be unsociable
75.选择一位英雄作为偶像/91
　　Choose a heroic ideal
76.不要总开玩笑/93
　　Do not always be jesting
77.做人须八面玲珑/93
　　Be all things to all men
78.做事有道/95
　　The art of undertaking things
79.轻松快活的个性/95
　　A genial disposition
80.获取信息要谨慎/97
　　Take care to get information
81.勇于推陈出新/97
　　Renew your brilliance
82.凡事无论好与坏,不要走极端/99
　　Drain nothing to the dregs, neither good nor ill
83.容许自己有无伤大雅之过/99
　　Allow yourself some venial fault
84.善用对手/101
　　Make use of your enemies
85.不做无所不知之人/103
　　Do not be a wild card
86.预防流言蜚语/103
　　Prevent scandal
87.文明和高雅/105
　　Culture and elegance
88.举止高贵大方/107
　　Let your behaviour be fine and noble
89.了解自己/107
　　Know yourself
90.长寿的秘密/109
　　The secret of long life
91.对做某事审慎与否若有疑虑,就别着手去做/109
　　Never set to work at anything if you have
　　any doubts of its prudence
92.要有超凡的智慧/111
　　Transcendent wisdom
93.多才多艺/111
　　Versatility
94.让你的才能高深莫测/113
　　Keep the extent of your abilities unknown
95.让人们保持对你的期望/113
　　Keep expectation alive
96.至高无上的辨别力/113
　　The highest discretion
97.赢得并维护美名/115
　　Obtain and preserve a reputation
98.掩饰你的意图/115
　　Write your intentions in cypher
99.本质与表象/117
　　Reality and appearance
100.做一个清醒的人,智慧的信徒,贤能的臣子/117
Be a man without illusions,
a wise christian, a philosophic courtier
101.世上的一半人嘲笑另一半人,其实他们都是蠢人/119
One half of the world laughs at the other,
and fools are they all
102.天降大福需有大心胸消受/119
Be able to stomach big slices of luck
103.让每人都保有尊严/121
Let each keep up his dignity
104.明确不同工作的要求/123
Know the demands of different occupations
105.勿遭人烦/123
Don’t be a bore
106.勿炫耀你的地位/125
Do not parade your position
107.勿自鸣得意/127
Show no self-satisfaction
108.与人同行是成为伟人的捷径/129
The path to greatness is along with others
109.不要吹毛求疵/129
Be not censorious
110.不要坐以待毙/131
Do not wait till you are a sinking sun
111.赢得朋友/131
Have friends
112.博取他人的好感/133
Gain good-will
113.未雨绸缪/135
In prosperity prepare for adversity
114.避免与人相争/135
Never compete
115.习惯熟人的缺点/137
Get used to the failings of your familiars
116.只和可敬之人交往/137
Only act with honourable men
117.决不谈论自己/139
Never talk about yourself
118.要赢得谦恭有礼的名声/139
Acquire the reputation of courtesy
119.避免惹人厌烦/141
Avoid becoming disliked
120.生活讲求实际/143
Live practically
121.不要小题大做/145
Do not make a business of what is no business
122.言行应有威信/145
Distinction in speech and action
123.避免矫揉造作/147
Avoid affectation
124.要被他人想念/147
Get yourself missed
125.不要成为污点记录簿/149
Do not be a black list
126.愚蠢并非做了蠢事,而在于做后不知掩饰/151
Folly consists not in
committing folly, but in not hiding it when committed
127.凡是从容优雅/151
Grace in everything
128.要有高远的志向/153
Highmindedness
129.从不抱怨/153
Never complain
130.要干,且要让人看见/155
Do and be seen doing
131.慷慨大度/157
Nobility of feeling
132.修正自己的判断/157
Revise your judgments
133.宁可同醉,而不独醒/159
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone
134.加倍储存你的资源/159
Double your resources
135.不要滋长唱反调的习气/161
Do not nourish the spirit of contradiction
136.抓住事情关键/163
Post yourself in the centre of things
137.圣人自足/163
The sage should be self-sufficing
138.任其自然的艺术/165
The art of letting things alone
139.冷静面对倒霉的日子/165
Recognize unlucky days
140.一眼看到事物好的一面/167
Find the good in a thing at once
141.不要只倾听自己的声音/169
Do not listen to yourself
142.当对手先站在正确的一方时,你不能固执地站在错误的一方/171
Never from obstinacy take the wrong side because your
opponent has anticipated you in taking the right one
143.别为免俗而玩弄诡辩之术/173
Never become paradoxical in order to avoid the trite
144.开始于他人,受用于自己/173
Begin with another’s to end with your own
145.藏好你受伤的手指/175
Do not show your wounded finger
146.透过现象看本质/177
Look into the interior of things
147.采纳他人的建议/177
Do not be inaccessible
148.掌握谈话的艺术/179
Have the art of conversation
149.懂得推罪于人/181
Know how to put off ills on others
150.推销得法/181
Know how to get your price for things
151.高瞻远瞩/183
Think beforehand
152.不与令自己黯然失色之人为伍/185
Never have a companion who casts you in the shade
153.不要去填补前人留下的巨大空缺/185
Beware of entering where there is a great gap to be filled
154.不轻易相信,也不轻易喜欢/187
Do not believe, or like, lightly
155.掌控激情的艺术/189
The art of mastering your passions
156.选择你的朋友/189
Select your friends
157.识人别出错/191
Do not make mistakes about character
158.善用朋友/193
Make use of your friends
159.忍受愚蠢/195
Put up with fools
160.说话要谨慎/195
Be careful in speaking
161.认清自身喜爱的缺点/197
Know your pet faults
162.如何战胜对手和诽谤者/197
How to triumph over rivals and detractors
163.决不因同情而卷入他人的不幸/199
Never, from sympathy with the unfortunate,
involve yourself in his fate
164.投石问路/201
Throw straws in the air
165.斗争也要讲体面/201
Wage war honourably
166.分辨善言者与善行者/203
Distinguish the man of words from the man of deeds
167.知道怎样依靠自己/203
Know how to take your own part
168.不要沦为愚蠢的怪物/205
Do not indulge in the eccentricities of folly
169.多加小心,避免万一失手胜过百发百中/207
Be more careful not to miss once
than to hit a hundred times
170.凡事有所保留/207
In all things keep something in reserve
171.不要滥用人情/209
Do not waste influence
172.决不与一无所有者争斗/209
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose
173.与人相交,不要像玻璃般易碎,朋友间尤其如此/211
Do not be glass in intercourse, still less in friendship
174.不要活在匆忙中/213
Do not live in a hurry
175.做个实在的人/213
A solid man
176.自知或从知者处知/215
Have knowledge, or know those that have knowledge
177.避免与人太亲近/217
Avoid familiarities in intercourse
178.信赖你的内心/217
Trust your heart
179.缄默是才能的标志/219
Reticence is the seal of capacity
180.决不被敌人误导/221
Never be guided by what your enemy has done
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295.若未奏效,不要邀功/359
Do not affect what you have not effected
296.高贵的品质/361
Noble qualities
297.行动总如处于监视中/361
Always act as if your acts were seen
298.可造就非凡之人的三大要素/363
Three things go to a prodigy
299.让人有饥饿感/363
Leave off hungry
300.总而言之,做一位圣徒/365
In one word, be a saint